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The Financial Express reports that the government of Bangladesh plans to install a 40-km cross-border power transmission line by 2012 to import electricity from India.
The report said that the government wants to install the 400kv cross-border power transmission line, a project that is worth about US$150 million, by 2012. “After getting approval from the highest policy-making body, we will sign a deal with a contractor for constructing the bilateral power grid,” Ruhul Amin, managing director of the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB), said in the report. It added that a cross-border power grid of about 100 km will connect Bangladesh’s western Bheramara and India’s eastern Baharampur area in the West Bengal state.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will finance for the project as it has already assured the government of providing US$100 million toward the costs, the report said. It noted that acute power outages in Bangladesh, which can supply nearly 4,000 mw of electricity a day but needs more than 5,500 mw, led to the project. |
