After almost five hours of blackout since 5:50am on Tuesday due to failure of the Satmasjid and Agargaon power substations, electricity supply was restored in part of the capital's Dhanmondi, Mohammadpur, Agargaon, Shyamoli and Mirpur areas.
"Power transmission was restored at the substations at 11:00am," said Md Zahangir Alam, a call centre executive of the Dhaka Power Distribution Company.
According to Md Zahangir Alam, a call center associate for the Dhaka Power Distribution Corporation, the power transmission was resumed at the substations at 11:00am.
Meanwhile, power supply was also restored at the 230 kV grid line from Aminbazar-Agargaon, according to a UNB report.
"From our end, power transmission was restored at 10:38 am. But it takes some time to fully restore electricity supply to distribution line," according to Badruddoza Sumon, public relation officer of Power Grid Company of Bangladesh.
