N districts still without power although nat'l grid recovers
Staff Correspondent
The northern districts of Dinajpur, Thakurgaon, and Panchagarh are still without power since Dinajpur power station became temporarily out of order following a lightning in the sky yesterday morning although the glitch in the national power grid that had plunged almost half the country into darkness on Thursday night was fixed.Baghabari, Barapukuria, Sylhet, Mymensingh and Ashuganj power stations resumed power generation yesterday. Due to technical faults in Bogra 132 kilovolt grid line at 6:07pm on Thursday, power supply in the northern region was disrupted, said a news release of Power Development Board yesterday. As a result power generation at 100 megawatt (mw) Baghabari unit, 90mw Westmont unit and 125mw Barapukuria unit stopped, the release added. In another incident three power units in Sylhet, Fenjuganj and Mymensingh became inoperative following a fire in a transformer in Ashuganj power station at 6:19pm. Two probe teams headed by General Manager of Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) Amir Khasru and its GM Ruhul Amin have been formed to look into the causes of the sudden disruption in power supply in the northern districts and the accident in Ashuganj power station. Both the committees are supposed to submit their reports within three days.
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