India-Bangladesh joint venture power plant to resume production after month-long halt

Dhaka, Feb 15 (PTI) A joint India-Bangladesh super thermal power plant in this country, shut down for a month due to coal shortage, will resume partial operations, according to media reports on Wednesday.

One of the two 660 MW units at Rampal power plant will resume electricity production on Wednesday after the coal import to run the unit was ensured amid a dollar crisis facing Bangladesh, BD News quoted Anwarul Azim, deputy general manager of Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company Limited, as saying.

Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company (BIFPC) is a joint venture by India’s state-owned National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and Bangladesh Power Development Board.