In a unique, unprecedented move, Members of Parliament of
the National Parliament of Bangladesh submitted a signed memorandum at the
meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Power, Energy
& Mineral Resources. They requested its intervention to ensure that the
Ministry lays out an effective planning, budget and program for renewable
energy development in the country, in consonance with the Bangladesh Renewable
Energy Policy 2008 and the Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority
(SREDA) Act 2012. The Parliamentary Standing Committee met on 22 August 2013,
under the chairmanship of M.P. Mr. Mohammad Shubid Ali Bhuiyan. On the request
of Climate Parliamentarians, SREDA was listed in the schedule agenda. The
Committee discussed various issues and suggestions given in the Memorandum, to
be taken forward to the Government.
