The
Main Issue of Bangladesh
John Park
There are many
vital issues in Bangladesh which is disturbing Bangladesh in many ways. Some
are corruption, no electricity, and poor traffic system etc. There are some
solutions. They are:
1. Government should build nuclear power plant to
produce more electricity. Five nuclear power plants are enough for Bangladesh
continuous power supply next 100 years. Though there is a matter of money actor
but if the government invests in the stock market, they can easily collect the
money to build nuclear power plant because of Government default risk is zero.
2.Government should introduce no conventional
and renewable sources of energy. If government builds solar energy, wind
energy, small hydro power, bio fuel and biomass for supplying electricity to
rural area, then load shedding of Dhaka city will be reduced.
3.Another most important issue is that about
Public awareness. Most of Bangladeshi is not aware of using electricity
properly. Most of time, we switch on electronics without any reason. So
government should create awareness through mass media. As we see, in the NSU,
lights are always switched on where there is enough sun light. There are many
CNG station outside Dhaka where they use more than “100 bulbs for their CNG
decoration. I think it’s just a waste of electricity. For this,
government should introduce a new law for misuse of resources and implement the
law properly.
4.There are some problems with the policy that
is followed in the power sector. This sector was always under government
control. Government should encourage large scale investment from private sector.
For the success of that strategy, all types of taxes on the import and sale of
generators must be fixed at zero per cent. Banks should allow loans without
mortgage for purchasing generators and buying raw materials for electricity
production. Government should reduce tax; vat and quota for importing power
station’s raw materials and government should give subsidy and load to the
private sector for building power station.
These are possible solutions to prevent the problem. Even if
there are many other problems, Bangladesh needs to try to prevent it because
the problems are making Bangladesh very bad. We should change this disadvantagement
to something that we could brag about to other countries.