The Korea International Cooperation Agency (Koica) has installed 20 solar-powered irrigation pumps and 1,250 solar home systems to provide electricity to neglected, poor farmers and villagers of various remote areas in Bangladesh.
Koica, the Korean government’s developmental instrument, initiated the project to promote the use of environment friendly, green, renewable energy which will cope with electricity shortage and address climate change problem as part of its efforts to fulfil its social responsibility and climate change mandate.
The Koica-supported project - ‘Solar Powered Irrigation Pumps and Solar Home Systems’ - was inaugurated on Monday at Modonhati, Rajshahi, said a press release.
Koica and the Rural Electrification Board (REB) jointly celebrated the completion.
Rajshahi City Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Bangladesh Lee Yun-young, Resident Representative of Koica Bangladesh Office Kim Bok-Hee, Joint Secretary of ERD Mohammad Asif-uz-Zaman, Chairman of the REB Brig Gen Moin Uddin, Koica’s and the government high officials, and over 200 farmers and villagers benefiting from the project were present.