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Misuse of electricity at RU

7 April 2006, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By Md. Shahadat Hussain, Chandora, Shafipur, Gazipur
7 April 2006, 18:00 PM
During my last visit to RU, I was amazed that most of the students in the residential halls cook their food in their rooms using electric heater. Normally, four students are living in a room but in some cases, these four are not cooking together. They are using four separate heaters. While the nation is facing severe power crisis, farmers do not get electricity for irrigation, what a stupid thing the students are doing in the highest educational institution. They are using about 4000 heaters of say, two kilowatt each for 4-5 hours per day on average, which consume a huge amount of electric power.

A power official (unwilling to tell his name) told me that the electric charge of RU comes to about Tk 22 core; after the charge abatement RU pays about Tk 15 crore. If the authority can stop the use of heaters in the halls, the nation can save some electric power as well as RU can save a lot of money, which can be used for the improvement of food quality in the dining-hall and research and development purpose also.

As a first step to stop using heater, the authority should give a special attention towards serving better quality food in dining-hall and provide more student facilities like sports, library, cultural activities etc. so that the students are inspired to take food in the dining-hall instead of cooking in their rooms. After providing all the facilities the authority should take such technical measures as to check any heater connections.

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If the authority be cordial and active on preventing the harmful practice (using heater) and take fruitful steps, the students not get any issue for demonstration. cent percent students of BUET halls are taking food from their dining-hall @ Tk 10 per meal; not a single heater can be found in their rooms. It is possible due to the continuous monitoring on food quality and students facilities in the BUET halls.

The students should be conscious about the misuse of our national resources. My special request to the all concerned at RU is to take necessary steps to stop the use of heater in residential halls as early as possible. Stop the misuse and serve the nation.