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Power from Tripura at Tk 6.43 per unit

Bangladesh yesterday decided to import 100 megawatt (MW) electricity from Palatana power plant in Indian state of Tripura at a price of Tk 6.43 ($0.8 or 5.5rupee) per unit excluding wheeling charges. The decision was disclosed at a joint press conference of Nasrul Hamid, state minister for power, energy and mineral resources, and Manik Dey, power minister of the Indian state of Tripura, at a hotel in the capital. The Tripura minister arrived in Dhaka on Friday. Earlier in the day, Nasrul Hamid and officials of the Power Division sat with the Indian delegation at Biddyut Bhaban in the capital where issues relating to the 100MW power purchase from the Palatana plant were settled. The power import is expected to start from February. “We…

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