At a cost of Tk. 800 crore, a 100 megawatt power plant is being constructed in Mollarhaat in Bagerhat. Already, sixty per cent of the work is done while the authority claims that the rest of the work will be completed by this year.
If the plant goes into operation on 31 December next, then much of the demand of power will be met.
The work of the plant on 16 acres of land by the Modhumoti River began on 28 January last by the North West Power Generation Company with technical assistance from China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation, CMC.
Construction of boundary walls, installing of six engines and generators, sand filling and connecting power lines to residential homes have been completed.
The work for the plant is going on with more than seven hundred local and foreign workers, with initial power production slated for 31 December.
Power from the plant will be connected to the national grid via a sub-station 14 km from the plant near Gopalganj police lines.
Deputy assistant manager of North West Power Generation Company, Anisur Rahman, said: “six generators and six engines have already been placed on platforms; so we can say that the plant will be operational on time.”
Chief engineer of China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation, Mr. Tingo, says: “all filing work is at its end; the completed work will be handed over on time.”
Plant’s sub-divisional engineer, Imtiaz Ahmed, assured: “this will go into production on 31 December, 2018.”
Meanwhile, Bagerhat zila chairman and freedom fighter, Sheikh Kamruzzaman Tuku, says: “once this plant goes into production, new industries will develop around the area and unemployment will fall significantly.”