A project – undertaken to resolve frequent power cuts in the Dhaka South City Corporation and adjacent Narayanganj – saw only 30% progress in the past six years as its original deadline expired in December last year.
As a common practice, the "Expansion & Strengthening of Power System Network" project has received an extension for two and half years till June 2024.
But insiders at the Dhaka Power Distribution Company Limited (DPDC), which took the project in 2016 to ensure uninterrupted power supply in the areas, said that the work would not be completed even within the extended timeframe.
Electricity consumers in the areas often face power supply cuts following a failure at a substation and transformer in the distribution network, and in order to solve the problem, the DPDC took the project, which was scheduled to be completed in December last year.
