The New Nation - Internet Edition

Narsingdi Correspondent

Four out of six units of the Ghorashal Thermal Power Plant, the country's largest power production unit, have been shutdown due to mechanical fault according to the control room of the plant.

Unit-3, which produced 210 megawatt of electricity per day, was shutdown due to carbon-di-oxide related problems Sunday night. Unit-2, with the capacity of 55 megawatt, was shutdown Saturday night. Two hundred and ten megawatt capacity Unit-5 remains closed since September 28 and Unit-1 of the power plant remained closed for modernisation work for the last one year.

According to the plant officials, the life span of each unit is 20 years and it needs overhauling every five years, but the authority did not do it. As a result the units are becoming weak and vulnerable day by day.