Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina while Presiding Over National Science and Technology Council [NSTC] meeting sated that her government will not take any whimsical decision on coal policy .It will examine all pros and cons before implementing it. Coal is the only other

Finance Minister of Bangladesh Mr AMA Muhith has just placed the National Budget Proposal to Parliament for the fiscal year 2010-11. This is the first time in the history of Bangladesh any budget is placed using power points in a digital format. Bangladesh is passing through desperate energy crisis. Confronting energy crisis is definitely among the priority objective of the government for the unhindered growth of targeted GDP. So as Energy Professional our interest is the allocation for Power and Energy.

Panic stricken Bangladesh Energy Sector policy makers appear to be very aggressive to import LNG for meeting part of the Energy Deficit especially in the gas draught affected Chittagong area. LNG import was among the agenda of the high powered energy delegation in the much publicised but least effective Road Shows at Singapore, London and New York.  That expensive picnic of bureaucrat and blessed technocrats now proved as fruitless exercise.

Streamlining Energy sector management to confront and overcome the prevailing and emerging energy crisis was one of the major challenges when Awami League led Mahajote formed the government in January 2009. It was told mahajote had required homework for confronting crisis and improve situation in the shortest possible time. In the election pledge government announced to add 1500MW power by 2011 and another 3500MW by the end of the term i.e. 2014 .All together about 5000MW new power was their promised target.

To confront serious power generation and supply crisis present Bangladesh government has implementing a massive plan to generate 9426MW new power by 2015.It is indeed a  serious challenge for a country which could achieve only about 4000MW effective generation capacity in 39 years since indepence.85% of generation is natural gas based. Nataural gas production and transmission also is stuck in beauracratic quagmire. Country has significant volume of untapped high quality coal reserve at mineable depth.