The state-run financial institution, Infrastructure Develop-ment Company Limited, holds a two-month campaign programme that includes a series of workshops, discussions and exchange of views to increase the use of bio-gas in Bangladesh.
As a part of the programme, a workshop on ‘sensitisation to increase the use of bio-gas as alternative source of energy to resolve power crises’ will be held at the National Press Club in Dhaka today.
Participants of the workshop will also visit Dhaka Zoo to gain experience of a bio-gas plant.
To promote the alternative source of energy in the country, IDCOL, in cooperation of GTZ Bangladesh, arranged the awareness building programme, said a news release on Monday.
Bio-gas plants in homesteads were not only supplying fuel for cooking but also lighting up the homes which had no access to the national grid. Some 12,000 plants had already been set up in different areas around the country, IDCOL sources said.
Typical bio-gas plants could be used for more than 30 years and required only 200 square feet area, using cow-dung and chicken excrement to produce energy, the release said.
