'Govt makes economy a patronised one'
Dhaka, Sept. 12 -- The country's economy has turned into a patronized one in order to facilitate some persons and people are paying price for the controlled and the manipulated market system.
BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury came up with the remarks while talking to The New Nation.
Bangladesh is now dependent on expensive imported fuel in the power sector. Opposition parties and economists have raised their voice several times about the massive excess in idle capacity in power generation.
Ignoring it, the government is planning to expand this capacity to 40,000MW while demand is stagnating at around 13,000 MW during peak hours. Most of the contracts were awarded
bypassing competitive bidding process. When ask...
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