Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government has a plan to provide solar home system (SHS) to three million more rural families in next three years as part of the scheme to produce 24,000 MW electricity by 2021, with 10 percent from solar power.
Bangladesh will get €211 million for bilateral technical and financial cooperation from Germany, the country's embassy in Dhaka said in a statement yesterday.
The government has decided to introduce 2.60 lakh prepaid gas metres in the capital city and the commercial capital of the country aimed at preventing the wastage of natural gas, a ministry official said.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday underlined the importance of intense monitoring of the social safety net programmes and other initiatives taken for improving the socio-economic condition of the extreme poor, destitutes, widows and disable persons.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today reiterated her call to further speed up and strengthen the cooperatives movement, saying that the "Sarbik Gram Unnayan Karmosuchi" would be expanded to all upazilas of the country to infuse more dynamism into the rural economy.
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