Load shedding, or discontinuing electric supply to cope with demand, is a major long-standing problem in Bangladesh. It is caused by inadequate infrastructure, political influence, ineffective government actions, failure to maintain power stations, lack of increasing supply, misuse of electricity, and corruption. Load shedding greatly hampers students, decreases production, and spoils goods that require refrigeration, harming many aspects of life and the economy. Solutions include raising public awareness to save electricity, repairing power stations, enforcing laws on illegal connections and corruption, and increasing electricity production.

1. Load Shedding problem in Bangladesh

2. Load shedding
• Load shedding means
discontinuation of electric supply
in certain area by concerned
authority in order to cope with
the demand with current
supply.When this happens the
whole area dives into darkness.It
has become a common part of
electric outage and system loss.
• This is one of the major problems
in bangladesh for a long time but
this problem is still present in our
life though we failed to solve
some crucial problems.
Load shedding affected area

3. Reasons behind Load Shedding
. Mediocre infrastructure
. Political influence
. Unpractical steps taken by
Government
. Failure of looking after power
stations by concerned authority
. Lack of steps for increasing
electrical supply
. Misuse of electricity
. Unauthorised electric connections
. Corruption of meter readers
Unprotected electrical instruments

4. Effects of Load Shedding
• Greatly hampers the
students es pecially
examinees while studying
• Decrease the production of
mills and factories
• Commodities kept for
preservation in cold
storages gets spoiled
• Farmers fail to water the
field in time
• Shops , hospitals ,houses
comes to a standstill.
Students are using candels for studying
due to load shedding

5. Demend- Generation=Load shedding
Graph of Demand ,Generation and load shedding
Source-bdnews24.com(10 July, 2010)

6. Solution of Load shedding
• Raise public awareness
for saving electricity
• Using energy saving bulb
• Repair and open the
closed power stations
• Apply the laws for illegal
connection and for
corrupted employes
• Taking proper steps for
increasing the production
of electricity
Latest power plants

7. Eletricity is the life blood of civilization.So load
shedding is a great problem and we need to
take
Proper steps to stop load shedding.If we fail to
control this great problem , our development
will not be intensified and we shall be
degraded.Government should take proper steps
as soon as possible to stop this problem.