BSS, Dhaka :
Bangladesh is to join the proposed regional grid connectivity with India, Bhutan and Nepal that will transmit 6,000 megawatt of power.
“We have come to a positive development on the issue relating to joint mechanism between India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal,” PK Sinha, Secretary of Indian Power Ministry, told reporters after the 7th Bangladesh-India Joint Steering Committee at a city hotel here yesterday.
Bangladesh Power Secretary Monwar Islam led Bangladesh delegation while Sinha led the Indian side.
Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pankaj Saran and other high officials of Ministry of Power of India and of Bangladesh, among others, joined the meeting.
Sinha said there is a meeting later in Delhi in May to be organized by Indian Foreign Ministry where Nepal and Bhutan will also participate. Issues of how the four countries can cooperate with each other to explore the potential in the power sector will be discussed, he said.
About the Rampal project of India’s National Thermal Power Company (NTPC), the Indian Secretary said installation of the power plant is
likely to begin by December 2018. “I have no doubt that the NTPC will be able to achieve this project,” he said.
Referring to the meeting minutes, Monwa Islam said India agreed in principal to the proposal of Bangladesh to provide 30MW electricity for system loss in the production of 500 MW power.
Both Bangladesh and India have reached a decision to import 100 MW power from Tripura state, he said.
“We had a fruitful discussion to increase the capacity of transmission plants for additional 500 MW electricity,” the Secretary said and added that a technical committee would be formed comprising experts from Bangladesh and India to examine it.
A report prepared by the joint technical team to install Bangladesh-India inter-grid connection was approved in the Secretary level meeting, meeting sources said.
Bangladesh is to join the proposed regional grid connectivity with India, Bhutan and Nepal that will transmit 6,000 megawatt of power.
“We have come to a positive development on the issue relating to joint mechanism between India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal,” PK Sinha, Secretary of Indian Power Ministry, told reporters after the 7th Bangladesh-India Joint Steering Committee at a city hotel here yesterday.
Bangladesh Power Secretary Monwar Islam led Bangladesh delegation while Sinha led the Indian side.
Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pankaj Saran and other high officials of Ministry of Power of India and of Bangladesh, among others, joined the meeting.
Sinha said there is a meeting later in Delhi in May to be organized by Indian Foreign Ministry where Nepal and Bhutan will also participate. Issues of how the four countries can cooperate with each other to explore the potential in the power sector will be discussed, he said.
About the Rampal project of India’s National Thermal Power Company (NTPC), the Indian Secretary said installation of the power plant is
likely to begin by December 2018. “I have no doubt that the NTPC will be able to achieve this project,” he said.
Referring to the meeting minutes, Monwa Islam said India agreed in principal to the proposal of Bangladesh to provide 30MW electricity for system loss in the production of 500 MW power.
Both Bangladesh and India have reached a decision to import 100 MW power from Tripura state, he said.
“We had a fruitful discussion to increase the capacity of transmission plants for additional 500 MW electricity,” the Secretary said and added that a technical committee would be formed comprising experts from Bangladesh and India to examine it.
A report prepared by the joint technical team to install Bangladesh-India inter-grid connection was approved in the Secretary level meeting, meeting sources said.
