The New Nation - Internet Edition

Chittagong, Correspondent

The commercial capital Chittagong which has been facing acute power crisis over the last few months,suffered another debacle when Kaptai Hydro Electric Plant (unit-1) went inoperative due to technical glitch last night. With the latest decline the cumulative generation shortfall in the port city stood at 250 megawatts causing prolonged power outage for nearly eight hours.Sources at the Power Development Board (PDB) said that generation at unit-1 of Kaptai Hydro Electric Plant of 30 megawatts output suddenly went inoperative. Another 50 megawatts unit-3 of the pant had been idle over the last couple of months. According to PDB officials, only 62 megawatts power could be generated from the rest three units of the power plant last night in the peak hour against its capacity of 130 MW generations. Assistant Director of the PDB (Public Relations) Mohammad Moniruzzaman told reporters that the inoperative unit might go into generation tomorrow after removing technical fault.