India to begin supplying power on Victory Day

India is expected to begin supplying an additional 100MW of electricity to Bangladesh on December 16, also Victory Day of Bangladesh.

This 100MW of electricity from Tripura will be an addition to 500MW of power Bangladesh currently receives from India through West Bengal.

The Tripura government decided to export 100MW of power to Bangladesh from its share of 196MW power from Palatana Power Plant after Dhaka allowed Tripura to use its ports to transport heavy equipment for the 726MW Palatana project.   

According to a news report of Business Standard of India yesterday, the Tripura government is putting all possible efforts to complete the power transmission line to Bangladesh to supply power.

The engineers and workers of the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited are working round the clock to set up the 47km transmission line from Western Tripura to southern Comilla in Bangladesh, the report said.

A total of 18km of this line and 67 out of 143 transmission towers fall in the Indian territory.

"We are working in two shifts from 7:00am till 9:00pm and in this connection I am really getting all the help from the state government of Tripura here," said M Hazarika, GM Project NE, PGCIL.