Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma on Saturday visited the Maitree Super Thermal Power Plant at Rampal, being built with funding from the Indian government's concessional financing scheme with an outlay of about US$ 2 billion.
Majority of the amount is being provided by India's EXIM Bank.
The plant uses ultra-super critical technology and is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities.
Phase-I of the 1320 MW power plant was inaugurated by the Prime Ministers of India and Bangladesh in September 2022 and has already started supplying electricity to the national grid of Bangladesh.
Phase-II of the project is expected to be completed shortly, officials said.
Energy cooperation is an "important component" of India-Bangladesh development partnership and the Maitree Super Thermal Power Plant is a concrete manifestation of the deep-rooted friendship and cooperation between India and Bangladesh, said the Indian High Commission in Dhaka.
The production at Maitree Super Thermal Power Plant at Rampal was halted on January 14 due to coal shortage.
In this regard, Sayed Ekram Ullah, managing director of Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company, told reporters that due to disruption of coal supply from Indonesia, production was suddenly halted.
“This problem arises because it takes some time to release the dollars. However, as the problem was solved, a ship with new coal left from there. The coal-carrying ship will arrive at Rampal power plant within a week,” said the official.
