India has agreed to provide 130MW of electricity to Bangladesh.
Of the 130MW, Bangladesh will import 100 MW from India’s Tripura state and the rest 30MW from India’s private sector through the Bheramara sub-station.
A technical committee will be formed for feasibility study.
Power Secretary Monowar Islam made the disclosure in a briefing after the joint steering committee’s seventh meeting of Bangladesh-India power sector cooperation held at Ruposhi Bangla Hotel in the capital on Thursday afternoon.
Monowar Islam said: “Positive discussions have been made in the meeting to import further 500MW of electricity.”
Dhaka is keen to import electricity from India in order to reduce its dependence on more costly power from rental and quick rental power plants, of which production cost is average Tk17 per unit; each unit of electricity from India costs an average of Tk6.
At present, Dhaka imports 500MW of electricity from India, 50% from the public sector and the rest from the private sector.
