India has initiated the process to supply 100MW of power from Tripura to Bangladesh, an Indian diplomat said here on Tuesday.
“Several steps were taken about the Indian Government’s commitment of supplying 100 MW of power to Bangladesh from southern Tripura’s Palatana power plant,” Indian Deputy High Commissioner in Dhaka Sandeep Chakravorty told reporters here after meeting Tripura Power Minister Manik Dey.
He said, “The Power Grid Corporation of India limited (PGCIl) would erect a transmission line from western Tripura’s Surjyamaninagar power grid to Comilla (in eastern Bangladesh) power grid to supply the power.”
He said that supplying power from Tripura to Bangladesh will be similar to the system between West Bengal’s Baharampur and Bheramara in Bangladesh.
India had commenced supply of 250MW of power to Bangladesh last year after the government-run Bangladesh Power Development Board and India's NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam ltd (NVVN), a subsidiary of India's National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), signed a deal February 28, 2012 to supply 250MW of electricity, following an agreement signed during Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina’s visit to New Delhi in January 2010.