Extreme Poor Access to energy, Bangladesh a case (original) (raw)
Economic based of Bangladesh is laid on rural structure. 75% People still live in rural areas yet to access in low cost lighting source is far reaching for the majority of rural people let alone poor and extreme poor. Only half of the people of are connected with national electric lien through some public companies and board where government is main supplier both rural and urban areas. In rural areas the dominant patron is Rural Electrification Board but they could reach only minimum (%) of total rural people and only reach people are the beneficiary of that public resources. Still one third (31.5%) of the country's total population is poor and their daily income is less than 2.25 $ and 17.5% are extreme poor whose per capita income is less than 1.25 US$ a day. Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in attaining some MDGs like reducing the extreme poverty and hunger, maternal and neonatal deaths and increasing primary school enrollment. In reaching cent percent enrollment in primary school and reducing discontinuity before completion of compulsory five years education by the year 2015 where major challenges are marginalization through geographical, ethnicity and culture and access to technology. People's live in one marginalization have had been deprived from multiple ways and cannot able to attain basic human development indicators like in absence of lighting source in night creates divide among children with have access to light as stigmatize talent students and weaker students! Among recent technology transfer initiatives in developing countries like Bangladesh renewable energy like solar panel installation in the remote areas among the resource poor, is increasing significantly which proves again that every human society has thirst for development and thus they are very much willing to pay for development!
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