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Energy security needed to continue Bangladesh's high growth: Nasrul

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19 Oct 2021 00:00:00 | Update: 19 Oct 2021 08:58:55
Energy security needed to continue Bangladesh's high growth: Nasrul
Nasrul Hamid

Energy security has to be ensured to continue the high growth of Bangladesh's economy, Nasrul Hamid, state minister for power, energy and mineral resources, has said.

Addressing a programme marking Sheikh Russel Day at the Petrobangla auditorium in the capital on Monday, he said realistic steps must be taken to address the turbulence in the global energy sector.

“Also, it is essential to speed up the search and extraction of our own resources,” he said.

He said Bangladesh has to take pragmatic measures to ensure energy security, adding the energy sector is the economy’s main driving force.

“A slight change in our decision can lead to a huge change in the country.”

He said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had made remarkable contributions to the country’s electricity and fuel sectors.

“There were no resources in the country after independence. He [Bangabandhu] showed the way to make these sectors prosperous in three years. So, why cannot we do so now?” he said.

The state minister said Sheikh Russel had always followed Bangabandhu.

“If he [Sheikh Russel] was alive, we would have got the role model of a leader. But the killers did not spare the ten-year-old child,” he said.

“On August 15, 1975, Bangabandhu and his family members were killed. At the same time, they killed the trend of Bangladesh’s development. The path to justice was also blocked,” he further said.

Nasrul said Bangladesh’s positive image in the world was getting brighter and brighter.

“Now we have to be united. Any kind of anarchy is not desirable,” he added.

Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation Chairman ABM Azad and Petrobangla Chairman ABM Abdul Fattah spoke at the programme among others while Md Anisur Rahman, senior secretary of the Energy and Mineral Resources Division, presided over the event.

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