<p class="single-artical-content-container-600" style="width: 600px; margin-right: auto !important; margin-bottom: 0.9375rem !important; margin-left: auto !important;"><span style="font-size: 21.6px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: times, serif;">State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid on Friday said the ongoing power cuts in the country will not last long.</span></p><p class="single-artical-content-container-600" style="width: 600px; margin-right: auto !important; margin-bottom: 0.9375rem !important; margin-left: auto !important;"><font color="#333333" face="times, serif"><span style="font-size: 21.6px;">"We're sorry to our consumers for the current crisis and seek their cooperation to overcome it," he wrote on his verified Facebook page on Friday.</span></font></p><p class="single-artical-content-container-600" style="width: 600px; margin-right: auto !important; margin-bottom: 0.9375rem !important; margin-left: auto !important;"><span style="font-size: 21.6px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: times, serif;">Nasrul made similar statements while talking to reporters at his residence earlier in the day.</span><br></p><p class="single-artical-content-container-600" style="width: 600px; margin-right: auto !important; margin-bottom: 0.9375rem !important; margin-left: auto !important;"><span style="font-size: 21.6px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: times, serif;">He said the government was forced to implement schedule-based power cuts across the country to resolve the ongoing crisis. "However, a new plan for load shedding will be undertaken within a week after taking stock of the situation."</span></p><p class="single-artical-content-container-600" style="width: 600px; margin-right: auto !important; margin-bottom: 0.9375rem !important; margin-left: auto !important;"><font color="#333333" face="times, serif"><span style="font-size: 21.6px;">"Within the next few months, the second unit of Payra power plant and Rampal power plant will come into operation. Also, 1600 MW of electricity will be imported from India's Adani power plant soon. All these will add more than 4000 MW of electricity to the national grid," Nasrul added.</span></font></p><p class="single-artical-content-container-600" style="width: 600px; margin-right: auto !important; margin-bottom: 0.9375rem !important; margin-left: auto !important;"><font color="#333333" face="times, serif"><span style="font-size: 21.6px;">The state minister sought everyone's cooperation at this difficult time.&nbsp;</span></font></p><p class="single-artical-content-container-600" style="width: 600px; margin-right: auto !important; margin-bottom: 0.9375rem !important; margin-left: auto !important;"><font color="#333333" face="times, serif"><span style="font-size: 21.6px;">bnbd24/TR</span></font></p>