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Myanmar firm keen to export electricity to Bangladesh

Staff Correspondent
A Myanmar company is to set up a 500-megawatt hydroelectric plant in Rakhine state and export electricity to Bangladesh, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said yesterday.
The minister said she talked to the authorities of the company, Shwe Taung Development Co, during her recent visit to Myanmar.
Besides, a local company that has already got lease of land in Rakhine state to set up two power plants would consider exporting electricity to Bangladesh after meeting the demand of the state, she said.
Dipu Moni said this at a seminar on Bangladesh-Myanmar Relations organised by the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BUSS) on its premises in the capital.
Technical experts from the ministry of energy will visit Rakhine state to make a feasibility study on the prospects of electricity import as Myanmar government has agreed to Bangladesh's proposal to arrange a visit to the state in this regard, she said.
A team of the power ministry is expected to visit Myanmar in the first week of July, Dipu Moni said.
The amount of bilateral trade between Bangladesh and Myanmar will be increased from the present $140 million to $500 million
during2009-10 fiscal year, she said.
"This figure was envisioned during the last V(S1 (()t MVhnfnaf s Vice’ S'enittt £^ral.Mating Aye,' Dipu Moni said, adding that,Bangladesh is putting its efforts on going Back more to' normal trade than only border trade.
She said rail and road connectivity with Myanmar and other Southeast Asian countries and China, which is underway, will create enormous scopes for trade and cooperation.
She noted that presen tly neither Bangladesh Biman nor any airline from Myanmar is operating flights between Dhaka and Yangon. To facilitate trade and tourism, bi-weekly direct flights on the route or Mandalay-Cox's Bazar could be operated by any Bangladeshi private airline.
“We are also working to establish direct banking facilities for the benefit of businessmen of both the countries,” Dipu Moni said.
The government is also preparing an updated list of Rohingya refugees, upon request of Myanmar, to repatriate them to their home country, she said. Presently, around 22,000 Rohingya refugees and an estimated two to four lakh illegal Rohingya settlers are staying in Bangladesh.
Major General Sheikh Md Monirul Islam, former ambassador Ashfaqur Rahman, Brig Gen (retd) Salim Akhtar and Prof Syed Anwar Husain of Dhaka University also spoke.