The committee inquiring into Saturday’s power outage across the country will seek more time to file its findings. The committee headed by power division’s Additional Secretary Kaykaus Ahmed visited the Ashuganj Thermal Power Plant in Brahmanbarhia on Wednesday.
“We will not be able to file our report within the timeframe of three-working days set by the ministry.” “We will inform the ministry about the progress of the investigation on Thursday and will seek more time to file the report,” the probe committee chief told reporters. He said they were yet to identify the reason for the grid failure. According to an earlier report, the 8-member probe committee was formed to investigate into the national power grid failure on Saturday last is expected to submit its primary report to the power ministry Wednesday.
“We’ll submit primary inquiry report on the national power grid failure to the authorities concerned tomorrow,” said power division additional secretary Md Kaikawas, head of the committee.Talking to journalists after visiting the 500-megawatt high voltage Bangladesh-India back to back Bheramara sub-station Tuesday, Kaikawas described the national power grid failure as a national disaster and said the committee is trying to unearth the reasons behind such a power disaster.
The members of the committee reached the sub-station office at 11am and went round the control room and other different departments of the station at Ramakrishnapur in Bheramara.
Executive secretary of Bangladesh-India back to back Bheramara sub-station Alamgir Hossain was present during the visit.
On November 1, the national power grid suffered a breakdown at around 11:30 am following a major technical glitch putting the entire country out of electricity for over 12hours. – GreenWatch Dhaka Desk
