India's NTPC to build Bangladesh coal power plant

Bangladesh has tapped NTPC to build a $1.5-billion coal-fired power plant.

The plant is expected to open in 2016 and produce daily 1,320 megawatts of electricity. This will help ease the daily shortfall of about 2,000 megawatts, which is being blamed for hampering the economy.

Bangladesh's Power Development Board chairman Alamgir Kabir and Arup Roy Choudhury of India's National Thermal Power Corp. signed an agreement in Dhaka.

Bangladesh relies on decades-old gas-fired plants, but with about 3.3 billion tons of coal reserves, the country of 150 million people is looking into options for coal-fired power plants.

The government says the economy is expected to grow by more than 6 percent this year.

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