Dhaka, April 23 -- The government is going to introduce 110MW load-shedding in Dhaka to boost power supply for irrigation, State Minister for Power Aninda Islam Amit has said.

He also expressed hope that the current power crisis would ease within the next seven days once two major power plants return to full production.

Amit detailed the supply-demand gap in parliament on Thursday.

On Wednesday, the peak demand for electricity reached nearly 16,000MW, while production stood at 14,126.35MW.

The resulting deficit of 2,086MW necessitated load-shedding.

In Dhaka, the combined demand for DESCO and DPDC is approximately 3,500MW.

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