The New Nation - Internet Edition

Narsinghdi Correspondent

Road communications between Dhaka- Narsinghdi and Dhaka- Sylhet highways remained suspended for four hours yesterday as hundreds of angry people of Chowala in Narsinghdi laid blockade due to non-stop power outage at the area on Saturday.

They also smashed several windowpanes and billboards of Narsinghdi Palli Biddut Samaty-2 office and demanded uninterrupted power supply to their areas.

Residents of Chowala rushed to Narsingdi Palli Biddut Samaty-2 office yesterday morning to press their demand for non-stop power supply at their area where they experienced seven hours power outage from 4:00 pm to 11:00 pm on Saturday.

They put up barricade at the entrance of Dhaka- Narsinghdi and Dhaka- Sylhet highways from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM yesterday. This caused immense sufferings to the long distance bus passengers.

They withdrew barricade at 1.00 pm yesterday following the assurance of Joint Forces army for adequate supply of power at the areas.

They demanded resignation of the managing director of Narsinghdi Palli Biddut Samiti-2 for his failure to ensure power.

The power outage also disrupted production in the local mills and industries.

Meanwhile, the 80-MW Tongi power plant has suspended electricity generation yesterday due to leakage developed in its cooling system.

The electricity production of the plant was snapped at 5:35 am when the engineers identified a leakage in the cooling system, sources of Power Development Board (PDB) said.

The engineers of the power plant are repairing the plant, but they could not conform how much time would be needed to resume the plant.

The electricity generation was about 3,300 yesterday against the demand of 5,000 MW, sources said.

The people experienced about 1,700 MW of load shedding at peak hours yesterday.