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Indo-Bangla JSC meeting on power begins today

UNB, Dhaka
A meeting of the Bangladesh-India Joint Steering Committee (JSC) on power sector development will begin today in New Delhi.
At the two-day meeting, Bangladesh will place a joint survey report on its proposed import of 100MW power from India's Palatana Power Plant in its Tripura state.
Both Dhaka and Delhi jointly conducted a study to assess the need for new infrastructures to be developed to import 100MW of electricity from the Palatana plant as per decision of the last JSC meeting held in Dhaka in April, said sources at the Power Division.
Officials said the state-owned Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Limited (PGCB) and the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) carried out the joint feasibility study in the last few months and compiled the study findings.
"The report is likely to be placed at the JSC meeting scheduled for October 9-10 in New Delhi," said
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Anwar Hossain, joint secretary at the Power Division.
He said both sides will discuss the findings of the survey and decide the next course of action based on it to build the connectivity to facilitate Bangladesh's import of 100MW power from the Palatana plant in Tripura.
According to the sources, power import from the Palatana Power Plant will take more than a year as it needs new high voltage transmission lines.
India has set up the 726.6MW gas-fired power plant project with its state-owned ONGC Tripura Power Company (OTPC) limited. Bangladesh facilitated its development by allowing transportation of heavy equipment through its territory without imposing any tax.
Power Division officials said
Bangladesh's import of 100MW power from Palatana will require installation of about 32 to 35km long transmission lines with a 132kV transmission capacity. Of the line, 12km will be in Bangladesh side and the remaining in India.
At present, Bangladesh has a power substation at the border point under Comilla-North power supply system. But the existing substation needs to be upgraded to take Palatana's power from the Indian grid system.
Officials said a lot of technical work needs to be done to synchronise Indian power system with Bangladesh's grid.
They said India's 100MW of electricity may not be connected with the main power system in Comilla as the area is considered to be very sensitive from security point of view as one of the largest cantonment of Bangladesh is located there.