India’s commercial export of power to Bangladesh commenced on Saturday with the inauguration of the Bangladesh-India Power Transmission Centre at western Bherampura, adjacent to West Bengal.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Indian Power Minister Farooq Abdullah attended the ceremony in Bheramara of Kusthia district while Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed the event through video-conference from New Delhi. The power is being imported under a memorandum of understanding signed during Ms. Hasina’s visit to India in 2010.
India will export 500 megawatts of electricity a day to Bangladesh over a period of 35 years. A 125-kilometre transmission line, 40 km of it in Bangladesh, connects the two substations. The test supply began on September 27. Officials said it would go up to 250 MW every day and reach 500 MW by November-end. Bangladesh officials believe the export would greatly ease the national shortage once 500 MW flows into the national grid.
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