BSTI launches energy efficient equipment making project
Industries Minister Dilip Barua, inaugurating a project titled ‘Barrier Removal to the Cost Effective Development and Implementation of Energy Efficiency Standards and Labeling’ at a city hotel yesterday.
Staff Correspondent
Bangladesh Standard Testing Institute (BSTI) has launched a project in a bid to make people aware of using energy saving technology to combat the existing power crunch.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) supported project will provide the people with infrastructural support in production and import of energy saving equipment to minimise greenhouse gas emission for a more protected environment.
Industries Minister Dilip Barua formally inaugurated the project titled ‘Barrier Removal to the Cost Effective Development and Imple-mentation of Energy Efficiency Stan-dards and Labeling’ at a city hotel yesterday.
Barua said, the grand-alliance government was committed to encourage environment-friendly industrialisation in the country. The government is prioritising pollution-free industries only, he added.
The government will extend its whole-hearted support to any energy saving and environment-friendly industrial project, the Industries Minister said adding that Bangladesh is one of the worst victims of global warming.
Industry Secretary KH Masud Siddiqui, Country representative UNDP Stefan Priesner, project director Abdul Matin also addressed the function presided over by BSTI director general AK Fazlul Ahad.
Project Manager Shahjahan Chowdhury presented a keynote paper highlighting the project.
Energy efficiency of air condition, refrigerator, electric fan and motor, ballast and CFL will be certified and labeled under the project, he said adding this project will also open the export possibility of the local products to neighbouring countries.
There is no alternative to using energy saving technology in order to address the power deficit, the keynote paper said adding much of world biodiversity has been hampered due to global warming.
UNDP is simul-taneously supporting the project in six Asian countries: China, Indo-nesia, Pakistan, Thiland, Vietnam and Bangladesh, spending US$7 million.
3 million dollars are being spent in Bangladesh—one million from UNDP and the rest from the national exchequer.
