The Bangladesh government has decided to set up 10 power plants with a capacity of generating 830 mw on emergency basis to meet the growing demand for electricity.
Briefing reporters after an Executive Council of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) meeting at the NEC conference room here. Total of Taka 7,203 crpre will be needed to set up the new power plants and those would be kept operational during peak hours.
Prime Minister and ECNEC chairperson Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting. Ministers and concerned secretaries were present at the meeting, said a press release.
Planning Minister Air Vice Marshal (retd) AK Khandaker today said the project would be entirely be financed
by the government and it would be implemented by the end of next year.
These power plants are expensive as it would be diesel-run and that is why the power plants would be kept operative four to five hours a day.
The ECNEC meeting gave approval to seven projects involving Taka 13,822 crore including Taka 914 crore project aid.
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