Consumers in the areas under Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited (Desco) will experience power cuts for three hours on Sunday. Desco has published the new schedule for load shedding on Sunday. The Desco areas include Uttara, Gulshan, Baridhara, Bashundhara, Banani, Badda, Uttara khan, Dakkhin Khan, Agagaon, Mirpur, Kafrul, Kalayanpur, Khilkhet, Pallabi, Rupnagar and Tongi. However, consumers in the areas under Dhaka Power Supply Company Limited (DPDC) will see power cuts for an hour while in some places there will be load shedding for two hours. Read: 3-hr cuts in Desco areas after Ghorashal 365MW plant breaks down Both organisations have provided separate schedules for load shedding today. Power cuts will occur from 10am to 10pm in and around the capital as per the government's decision to save electricity. The load shedding schedules can be found on the DPDC and Desco websites. They aim to help electricity users check their load shedding schedules to ascertain during which times the power will be off in their respective areas. The government started daily one hour area-based load-shedding across Bangladesh from July 19 in a bid to tackle the ongoing energy crisis.

Prepaid meter recharging of Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited (Desco) will remain suspended for 50 hours from Thursday night. According to a Desco public notice, all kinds of prepaid meter recharging of its consumers will remain suspended from 9.59 pm on Thursday to 11.59 on Saturday due to technical improvement works. Read:Desco’s underground cabling plan misses JICA deadline for its own fault The Desco requested all its prepaid meter consumers to keep adequate balance in their prepaid meters to ensure uninterrupted power supply during the period and also advised to contact the phone number: 16120 for any requirement. Desco regrets the temporary inconvenience of its consumers. Desco is responsible for power distribution to 400 square kilometers of the Dhaka city’s west, north-west and part of eastern areas including Mirpur, Pallabi, Kafrul, Kalyanpur, Cantonment, Gulshan, Banani, Mohakhali, Uttara, Uttar Khan, Dakshin Khan, Baridhara, Badda, Tongi and Purbachal. Read:Desco to provide smart prepaid meters to all customers by 2023 Among its 10,61,848 consumers, some 5,72,692 consumers use prepaid meters to get the electricity supply.