Frequent power cuts put small businesses under pressure

Each time the electricity goes out, Abdus Salam’s lathes at a workshop in Pabna grind to a halt. Workers at Rezbin Hafiz’s small shoe factory in Dhamrai also have to stop work and wait for hours for power to return. At Abul Kashem’s engineering unit in Keraniganj, production comes to a standstill, leaving workers battling the heat and falling behind on delivery deadlines.