<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said that the people are getting electricity even though the government has imposed some austerity measures amid global crisis.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“People are getting electricity and will get it, but all have to maintain austerity," she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We are also maintaining austerity in some cases. we are compelled to do so for the present situation,” she said while inaugurating the installation of a reactor pressure vessel at the second unit of the 2,400 MW Rooppur nuclear power plant (RNPP).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She joined the programme virtually from her official residence Ganabhaban while it was held at Ishwardi of the northern district of Pabna.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister said her government has fulfilled its promise of providing electricity to all.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“We have kept our promise. We have been able to reach electricity to every house of Bangladesh,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this connection, she that the current problem has arisen due to a war like situation in the world and COVID-19 pandemic.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“…prices have gone up in everything including transportation. As a result the developed countries are suffering from various problems," she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She went on saying that the developed countries also have focused on savings in every spheres of life. We are also doing that.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Because the world is now a global village one is dependent on another. When the world is suffering from economic recession that blow also comes to us,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As a result, she went on, "We have also started maintaining austerity."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“That does not mean, people of the country will not get electricity," she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She once again blamed the Russia-Ukraine war and subsequent sanctions for compounding the problems.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I hope that the world will get relief from this situation very quickly," she added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Science and Technology Minister Yeafesh Osman, Director General of Russia’s Rosatom State Corporation Alexey Likhachev and Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Science and Technology Ziaul Hasan also spoke at the event.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A documentary on the RNPP was also screened at the programme. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>