The Main Issue of Bangladesh

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.