Info secretary for judicious use of electricity, The government has been putting into action a number of decisions to reduce fuel costs and electricity consumption in order to address the global power and fuel crisis brought on by the Russia-Ukraine war. “As per the government’s decision, we’ve to reduce the use of electricity by 25 percent at all offices and thus save 20 percent of the budget allocation for the energy sector,” said Information and Broadcasting Secretary Md Humayun Kabir Khandaker.
Info secretary for judicious use of electricity
He was the keynote speaker at a learning session on “Energy Saving of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry and its Departments/Organizations” held in the conference room of his ministry today. He said physical meetings should be avoided if they are not urgent and that online meetings should be planned instead.
Khadiza Begum, additional secretary of the information and broadcasting ministry, gave the opening remarks, and Md Asaduzzaman, deputy secretary of the ministry and the annual performance agreement’s (APA) responsible officer, led the session. The learning session was attended by about 30 representatives of the information and broadcasting ministry’s various departments and organizations.
Humayun Kabir Khandaker said all offices under the information and broadcasting ministry will take necessary steps to reduce power consumption by 25 per cent and thus reduce 20 percent energy sector budget as the government’s decision. He said, “As a conscious citizen what we have to do to prevent energy wastage. We have to follow the government’s steps and decisions to save electricity and energy as conscious citizens.”
In addition to this, necessary measures can be taken to cut power use at citizen level, he added. Highlighting a set ’30-point to do list’ for saving power as well as energy, he said, “We all should cooperate the government, which has been relentlessly under the dynamic leadership of the Prime minister to turn the country into a developed one by 2041,”
The 30-point to do list includes use energy efficient light such as LED bulbs, using high reflection coefficient color for luminosity for lighting system such as fixure/chasing/reflector, using motion sensor lighting systems at common spaces including stairs, wash room, waiting room and corridor aiming to curb unnecessary use of electricity,
maintaining Lux Level brightness based on programme designed by Bangladesh National Building Code (BNBC) and keeping lighting system including electric bulb clean regularly as the dust reduce the brightness of the bulb, using task lighting system at office desks, ensuring the maximum use of daylight, avoiding the unnecessary use of electricity, keeping set temperature of air conditioners at 25 degree Celsius or above and shut doors- widows of room, avoiding the use of washing machine and geysers/heater to heat up water and keeping switches of lights-fans off at the time of leaving rooms.
“I think it is urgent to perform our responsibility from our respective position to save energy in line with the government’s decision . . . as a conscious citizen, we need to be judicious in using power for the benefits of the country,” said the information and broadcasting secretary. Toufiq Rahman and Abdullah Al Mamun of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority (SREDA) delivered keynote speeches as resource persons.
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