A meeting of the Bangladesh-India Joint Steering Committee (JSC) on power sector development begins on Thursday in New Delhi, reports UNB. At the two-day meeting, Bangladesh will place a joint survey report on its proposed import of 100 MW power from India’s Palatana Power Plant in its Tripura state. Sources at the Power Division said both Dhaka and Delhi jointly conducted a study to asses the needs for new infrastructures to be developed to import 100 MW of electricity from Palaltana plant as per decision of the last JSC meeting held in Dhaka in April last. Officials said the state-owned Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Limited (PGCB) and the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) carried out the joint feasibility study in the last few months and compiled the study findings. “The report is likely to be placed at the JSC meeting scheduled for October 9-10 in New Delhi,” said Power Division’s joint secretary Anwar Hossain. He said both sides will discuss the findings of the survey and decide the next course of action based on it to build the connectivity to facilitate Bangladesh import of 100 MW power from the Palatana plant in Tripura. According to the sources, power import from the Palatana Power Plant will take more than a year as it needs building new high voltage transmission lines. India has set up the 726.6 MW gas-fired power plant project with its state-owned ONGC Tripura Power Company (OTPC) limited. Bangladesh facilitated its development by allowing transportation of its heavy equipment through Bangladesh territory without imposing any tax. Power Division officials here said Bangladesh’s import of 100 MW power from Palatana will require installation of about 32-35-km long new transmission lines with a 132-kV transmission capacity. Of this line, 12 km will on Bangladesh side while 20-23 km on India’s. As per an assessment, power from Palatana will come to Comilla to get connected with Bangladesh’s national grid. At present, Bangladesh has a power substation at the border point under Comilla-North power supply system. But the existing substation will require to be upgraded to off-take Palatana’s power from Indian grid system. - See more at: http://www.daily-sun.com/details_Dhaka-to-place-joint-study-report-on-proposed-power-import-from-Tripura_1000_1_10_1_12.html#sthash.EWoIZDUe.dpuf