, June 23 -- The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) on Thursday called for sweeping policy reforms to scale up rooftop solar adoption in Bangladesh, saying that the country risks repeating the "retention failures" of its off-grid Solar Home System (SHS) era unless structural barriers in financing, taxation, and regulation are urgently addressed.

The think-tank made the observations at a programme at a city hotel, titled "Solar Revolution in Pakistan in the Eyes of Country's Leading CSO: Lessons for Bangladesh from National Budget Perspective."

Presenting the keynote, CPD Research Associate Atikuzzaman Shazeed traced Bangladesh's solar energy journey from the off-grid SHS programme launched in 2003, which electrified over 20 million people...