Blackout in the Entire Country

The people of Bangladesh have always faced electricity shortage problems. It has become a daily problem that often  for 1 to 2 hours there will be no electricity. The problem has become so frequent that people now have adjusted with it and have taken it as a part of their daily life. but the blackout that happened on 1st November was the worst people could imagine. 1st November Saturday around 11.30 pm the whole country witnessed a blackout. It was the worst since the 2007 incident. In 2007 due to a powerful cyclone 2500 people were killed and rest the people experienced a great power failure.

Last year Bangladesh started to import electricity from India to solve it’s everyday problem. The import of power transmission was of 400 kilovolt. It runs from Baharampur in the Indian state of west to the town of Bheramara in the southwestern of Bangladesh. Blackout happened because of a failure in the power line that comes from India. It caused a failure of the nation power grid, power plants and substation were being shutdown. Only the hospitals and the International Airport had an emergency generators supply. Other than that whole country survived with candles and lanterns. During those dark hours crimes, mugging and looting increased by a large number. People were insecure even in their homes. But soon the problem was solved partially and the rest were under work.

Whole country in darkness