Staff Reporter :
Two Japanese companies on Tuesday submitted bids for building the Matarbari 1,200MW coal-fired power plants and other infrastructures at Maheskhali Upazila of Cox’s Bazar district.
Matarbari coal fired power plant is a priority programme, but it suffered crisis after terrorist attack in Gulshan on July 1 in 2016 in which seven Japanese nationals along with 22 others were killed.
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid in a briefing in his office yesterday confirmed it to media.
The Japanese government and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) are now confident about the security situation and
the projects are now on the right track, the Minister said. The authorities of state-run Coal Power Generation Company Bangladesh Limited (CPGCBL) extended the bid submission dates five times, showing security reasons for the first three.
The construction of the 1,200MW power plant and the deep sea-port with the facilities to handle imported coal would consume a major portion of the total project cost, estimated at $4 billion dollar or Tk 32,000 crore.
CPGCBL is implementing the project with the financial and technical assistance from Japan International Cooperation Agency.
The project comprises construction of jetty and coal handling facilities for coal import, coal storage, power plant construction, township development, rural electrification and construction of transmission facilities and road communication.
The government expects electricity generation from the plant by December 2022. It will also spend Tk 237.21 crore for acquiring 1414.65 acres of land for the plant. At least one member of the every affected family will get a job, sources said.
Two Japanese companies on Tuesday submitted bids for building the Matarbari 1,200MW coal-fired power plants and other infrastructures at Maheskhali Upazila of Cox’s Bazar district.
Matarbari coal fired power plant is a priority programme, but it suffered crisis after terrorist attack in Gulshan on July 1 in 2016 in which seven Japanese nationals along with 22 others were killed.
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid in a briefing in his office yesterday confirmed it to media.
The Japanese government and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) are now confident about the security situation and
the projects are now on the right track, the Minister said. The authorities of state-run Coal Power Generation Company Bangladesh Limited (CPGCBL) extended the bid submission dates five times, showing security reasons for the first three.
The construction of the 1,200MW power plant and the deep sea-port with the facilities to handle imported coal would consume a major portion of the total project cost, estimated at $4 billion dollar or Tk 32,000 crore.
CPGCBL is implementing the project with the financial and technical assistance from Japan International Cooperation Agency.
The project comprises construction of jetty and coal handling facilities for coal import, coal storage, power plant construction, township development, rural electrification and construction of transmission facilities and road communication.
The government expects electricity generation from the plant by December 2022. It will also spend Tk 237.21 crore for acquiring 1414.65 acres of land for the plant. At least one member of the every affected family will get a job, sources said.
