Like the other most important Public properties, Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board’s (BREB) security measures are beefed up after the deadly militant attack in Gulshan and Sholakia. Major General Moin Uddin, the chairman of BREB mad the call for strengthening the security to protect the establishments, equipment, and other assets which actually belong to the people of Bangladesh.
Maj Gen Moin said that, BREB and Bangladesh Palli Bidyut Samiti (PBS) are some of the most important institutions in the country. The properties of both the organizations are public and the public property must be safeguarded from any threats, he added.
Earlier, the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina noted that, militants may commit more attacks, and the countrymen should stay alert and vigilant. Mentioning the alert, Maj Gen Moin emphasized to beef up the surveillance around the substation vicinity and to hook on more CC cameras, archway gates, metal detectors, fire extinguishers in the establishments of BREB. Strangers in BREB and PBS’s residential areas should be kept under proper surveillance, he added. Mosque Imams within BREB and PBS vicinities are also requested to preach the peaceful hints of Islam.
The chairman urged all high officials of the board and 77 PBSs to stay alert. He also called for making all-out efforts to continue uninterrupted electricity services to around 1.56 crore subscribers under rural electrification program.
A letter by BREB Chairman Maj Gen Moin Uddin carrying such instructions were sent to the field offices on Thursday, said Omar Faruk, BREB’s public relations official.