Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said India was ready to sell power to neighbouring Bangladesh.
Dedicating to the nation the second unit of the 726-MW gas-based power plant at Palatana, 60 km south of Agartala, capital of Tripura, Mr. Modi expressed his gratitude to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for allowing transhipment of heavy machinery to the plant.
“We have now a situation to export power and ready to sell [it] to Bangladesh,” he said.
The Prime Minister responded to Tawfique-e-Elahi Choudhury, senior energy adviser to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, expressing an interest to import power from India. “We are now importing 500 MW electricity from India and want 500MW more,” he told the gathering at the plant of ONGC Tripura Power Company (OTPC).
Earlier, the Prime Minister and his entourage reached Agartala by a special aircraft at 2 p.m. and then flew to Palatana by Air Force on choppers.
