Staff Reporter

The government is not taking any decision yet to set back clock’s for an hours from October 1 despite the day is getting smaller day by day, a senior official of the Power Division said.

He said that the Power Division had placed a proposal to the Cabinet earlier to set back the clock on October 1 when the Daylight Saving Time introduced. “But the proposal was not accepted as some over enthusiastic ministers in this regard during the Cabinet meeting then,” he said.

He added that the Power Division will prepare a proposal if Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who is the Minister of the Ministry of Power and Energy will directed in this regard.

“If the Cabinet will not take decision to set back clock for an hour then we will conduct our duties by switching light at officers,” he said adding, “It will fail government’s initiative to

Residents of both city and rural areas have been facing load shedding till now despite saving of 205MW of electricity on an average after introduction of daylight saving measure from June 19 midnight.

Residents of divisional cities only advanced their clock’s by an hours while clocks of other cities residents were set earlier Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Visiting the constituency of former State Minister for Power and Energy Advocate Shamsul Hoque Tuku who is now State Minister for Home Affairs, The New Nation reporter found that all the clocks of Pabna district town were set its earlier position.