<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Power supply to 97 percent consumers of the Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) was restored while it was cent percent for consumers of West Zone Power Distribution Company Ltd (WZPDC) till 12 noon on Thursday.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Power Division, referring to an updated information, said that the BREB restored the electricity supply to 2.93 crore consumers, which is 97 percent of its total affected consumers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some 3.03 crore consumers of the BREB got disconnected from the electricity supply network after cyclone Remal hit the country on Sunday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Still electricity supply could not be restored to some 9.22 lakh consumers, which is 3 percent of the total BREB consumers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">BREB hopes that they will be able to restore electricity to 99 percent of its affected consumers by 6 pm on Thursday while 1 percent will remain without electricity as they need door- to- door service.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The WZPDC has restored electricity supply to all of its affected consumers during the same period. The total affected consumers of WZPDC were 4.53 lakh who were without electricity due to the cyclone.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Power Division said that about 21,000 workforce from BREB are currently working at the field level, while the WZPDC has also engaged its manpower to repair damaged power lines.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd/fas</div>