AGARTALA, May 22 (TIWN): A meeting of Joint Study Committee (JSC) constituted by Ministry of Power of Bangladesh and India will hold its first meeting on Friday here at Pragna Bhawan, said Tripura minister of Power Manik Dey.

Speaking to reporters at secretariat on Thursday, the minister said the JSC has been constituted on April 2nd this year at Dhaka, Bangladesh, the subject of 100 MW supply to the neighboring country from Palatana thermal power plant.

He also informed that the members of Indian committee are Dr. R. Saha, director(SP&PA) CEA and Mr. Ashok Pal AGM, CTU – planning. The members from Bangladesh side are Chowdhury Alangir Hossian, Executive Director PGCB Ltd and Md. Mizanur, chief engineer BPDB.

Tripura government is keen to sell power to Bangladesh since inception of Palatana plant and upcoming Monarchak power project a decade ago considering its proximity and cooperation extended by Sheik Hasina government in Bangladesh for transportation of over dimensional consignments for Palatana.

Because transporting power to nearest Bangladesh grid from Tripura grid is hardly covering a distance of 50-80 Kilometres, which marginalized the transmission loss and also reduce the cost of power transportation comparing to selling power from Indian states through Bongaigoan,

By end of the year 2nd unit of Palatana with generation capacity of 363 MW and 104 MW Monarchak power project will also be operational, which will surplus at least 160-170 MW power daily at optimum level of production.The  selling power to Bangladesh will further strengthen bilateral relation between two countries and to pay recognition to Bangladesh's cooperation.