Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the government is working to generate 7,000 megawatts of electricity by 2013 and 20,000 by 2021 in line with their electoral manifesto.
“An agreement has also been signed between the government and the authorities of a rental project for the installment of a 1000MW power plant and the work order will be announced within two months,’’ she said while inaugurating a 51MW private power plant, Barakatullah Electro Dynamics (BEDL), in Fenchuganj of Sylhet. Sheikh Hasina said the government has taken initiatives to import Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to ease the persisting gas crisis in the country.Finance Minister AMA Muhith was, among others, present at the function, reports our staff correspondent in Sylhet. It is the first visit to Sylhet by the prime minister after assuming office. According to PDB officials, BEDL has been supplying 50MW electricity to PDB's national grid since last October without any major hiccup. The plant was supposed to generate power from January 1, 2009 but complexities related to the import of plant machinery led to the delay, company officials said. They signed a 15-year contract on April 28, 2008 to set up a power generation plant on a six-acre area in Kachubahar in Fenchuganj, very close to the 90MW combined cycle power plant of PDB. BEDL was launched by a group of some non-resident Bangladeshis and local entrepreneurs in 2007. The company has a plan to set up another plant nearby.
“An agreement has also been signed between the government and the authorities of a rental project for the installment of a 1000MW power plant and the work order will be announced within two months,’’ she said while inaugurating a 51MW private power plant, Barakatullah Electro Dynamics (BEDL), in Fenchuganj of Sylhet. Sheikh Hasina said the government has taken initiatives to import Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to ease the persisting gas crisis in the country.Finance Minister AMA Muhith was, among others, present at the function, reports our staff correspondent in Sylhet. It is the first visit to Sylhet by the prime minister after assuming office. According to PDB officials, BEDL has been supplying 50MW electricity to PDB's national grid since last October without any major hiccup. The plant was supposed to generate power from January 1, 2009 but complexities related to the import of plant machinery led to the delay, company officials said. They signed a 15-year contract on April 28, 2008 to set up a power generation plant on a six-acre area in Kachubahar in Fenchuganj, very close to the 90MW combined cycle power plant of PDB. BEDL was launched by a group of some non-resident Bangladeshis and local entrepreneurs in 2007. The company has a plan to set up another plant nearby.