Staff Reporter :
The 9th Indo-Bangla secretary level meeting of the Joint Steering Committee on electricity was held in the city on Thursday.
The agendas were import of more electricity, progress of The India – Bangldesh friendship power project at Rampal and high voltage power grid (bi-pole) for inter -country connection across Bangladesh.
The committee hoped that 100mw electricity will be imported from Palatan of Tripura, India by December 2015 and 500 mw by December 2017.
Both sides reviewed the current status of cooperation and potential for further expansion. The meeting expressed satisfaction at the progress of Rampal 1320 MW coal based thermal power plant project.
The Bangladesh team has stressed on the possibilities of power trade and inter-grid connectivity at the sub-regional level including Nepal and Bhutan.
Secretary PK Sinha led Indian side while his counterpart Monowar Islam headed Bangladesh side.
Bangladesh is currently importing 500 megawatt electricity from India. Talks are going on for import of more electricity.
The last meeting was held in New Delhi on Oct 10 last year.
UNB add:
India and Bangladesh appear set to open the way to partnerships between the two countries’ private sectors in the race to set up power plants in both Bangladesh and India.
This indication was dropped by Indian power secretary PK Sinha following the conclusion of a joint steering committee meeting for power sector cooperation between the two neighbouring nations that took place in Dhaka on Thursday.
“Private-private cooperation is just like we have the public-public (involving two countries’ state-owned entities) cooperation. That could be either in Bangladesh or in India,” he told reporters. “We have decided to facilitate the private-private cooperation like the public-public sector cooperation.”
The 9th Indo-Bangla secretary level meeting of the Joint Steering Committee on electricity was held in the city on Thursday.
The agendas were import of more electricity, progress of The India – Bangldesh friendship power project at Rampal and high voltage power grid (bi-pole) for inter -country connection across Bangladesh.
The committee hoped that 100mw electricity will be imported from Palatan of Tripura, India by December 2015 and 500 mw by December 2017.
Both sides reviewed the current status of cooperation and potential for further expansion. The meeting expressed satisfaction at the progress of Rampal 1320 MW coal based thermal power plant project.
The Bangladesh team has stressed on the possibilities of power trade and inter-grid connectivity at the sub-regional level including Nepal and Bhutan.
Secretary PK Sinha led Indian side while his counterpart Monowar Islam headed Bangladesh side.
Bangladesh is currently importing 500 megawatt electricity from India. Talks are going on for import of more electricity.
The last meeting was held in New Delhi on Oct 10 last year.
UNB add:
India and Bangladesh appear set to open the way to partnerships between the two countries’ private sectors in the race to set up power plants in both Bangladesh and India.
This indication was dropped by Indian power secretary PK Sinha following the conclusion of a joint steering committee meeting for power sector cooperation between the two neighbouring nations that took place in Dhaka on Thursday.
“Private-private cooperation is just like we have the public-public (involving two countries’ state-owned entities) cooperation. That could be either in Bangladesh or in India,” he told reporters. “We have decided to facilitate the private-private cooperation like the public-public sector cooperation.”
