Syful,
Staff reporter, Chittagong; 28 March 2018: Power failure in Rangpur town area has become a
regular matter. It comes for an hour or two then it vanishes for quite an
indefinite period. Students and the patients of the hospital are the worst
sufferers of it. When contacted the local PDB Executive Engineer said, “We are
helpless. Unless power production boosts up to at least 5000 Megawatt, we have
nothing to do. “The REB General Manager said in the same tune saying that they
were power distributors not power producers. In answer to questions, why have
they increased distribution policies and lines without being assured of
increasing power supply, he helplessly answered that he was not the policy
planner, he was simply an Executive Engineer. But his logical statement can
hardly reduce the suffering of the people of Rangpur. It is our duty to be
aware of it for our own betterment.