TIL Desk/World/Tokyo/ Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced that her government was setting up 100 Special Economic Zones (SEZ) “for further industrialization and generating more employments”. She made the remarks while launching two power plants, 11 grid sub-stations and six new transmission lines vitually from her official Ganabhaban residence on Thursday.
“A huge amount of money is being spent for producing electricity. We’re now importing LNG and we are still giving a huge amount of subsidy to the power sector. But we have to keep in mind that itis not always possible to give subsidies,” she said. “We’ve already been able to provide electricity to 97.5 per cent people of the country and we hope we could give it to 100 per cent people by 2021.”
Hasina said her government has planned to generate 24,000 MW electricity by 2021, 40,000 MW by 2030 and 60,000 MW by 2041 for the overall economic development of the country. “We’ve taken massive programmes to celebrate the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman this year and the golden jubilee of independence in 2021 and our goal is to light up every house of the country by 2021,” she added.
