Deputy Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Begum Habibun Nahar said once the Rampal Power Plant begins its operation, it will enhance social development in the surrounding areas.
As a part of its community development programs and CSR activities, the mother organization of the power plant Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company Limited (BIFPCL) has conducted medical camps, distributed wheel chairs, implemented safe drinking water projects, distributed water filters in schools and colleges, provided skill development training like computer and sewing, distributed sewing machines, distributed relief amongst the poor during Covid-19 pandemic , distributed blankets in winter and so on, she said.
Habibun Nahar distributed was addressing sewing machine distribution programme on Saturday. Some 150 women who were trained by BIFPCL received the sewing machine at the event.
The deputy minister said no harm will come to the Sundarbans from the Rampal Power Plant and neither it will have impact on the lives of the locals.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina works for the well-being of people and Rampal Power Plant is one of such initiatives that will work for the welfare of local people in the region, she added.
Presided over program Project Director SC Pandey, BIFPCL Deputy Project Director Rezaul Karim, Rampal Upazilla Chairman Moyazzem Hossain, Upazilla Nirbahi Office Shadhon Kumar Biswas, Gouramva Union Parishad (UP) Chairman Gnagiyas Uddin Gazi, Rajnagar UP Chairman Shardar Abdul Hannan Dablu, BIFPCL Manager (HR) Tariqul Islam, former General Secretary of Khulna Press Club Mallick Sudhangshu, among others, also present on the occasion.
Earlier on Friday, Power Division Secretary Dr Sultan Ahmed distributed wheel chairs among the differently-abled persons living in the adjacent areas at the Rampal Power Plant.
Sultan Ahmed said the government has been working relentlessly to provide cent percent electricity throughout the country in the Mujib Year by declaring it as "Sheba Borsho" to mark the birth centennial of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
In continuation to this, a huge workforce has been deployed from different parts of Bangladesh and skilled manpower from India at Rampal Power Plant to generate electricity within the shortest possible time, he added.
