Load shedding during the summer days will be kept at a tolerable level, Power and Energy Adviser Fouzul Kabir Khan said yesterday.

Strangely enough, although the government is unable to meet power needs, it pays thousands of crores to government and private power plants as fixed charges or capacity charges every month with taxpayers’ money.

Bangladesh loses around $3.3 billion a year due to unreliable power supply to homes, offices, and factories.

Public money is being used to shore up PDB's losses and pay profiteering private companies