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UNB, Khulna

Chief Adviser's Special Assistant for Power and Energy Dr M Tamim yesterday said the present government has a plan to set up a coal-based power plant in Khulna and work in this regard is progressing.

"Tender has already been floated for setting up a 210-MW power plant in Khulna," he said at a meeting at the head office of West Zone Power Distribution Company while discussing the power situation of Khulna region.

Dr Tamim said a similar coal-based power plant would also be built in Chittagong.

At present, some 3,900MW power is being generated daily in the country against the demand of 4,800- 5,000MW during the peak hours, he told the meeting.

Works on setting up a number of rental power plants are going on, the CA's special assistant said adding that upon completion of these plants by next May, power generation in the country would increase by 200MW. "Power generation will be raised by some 1,000MW by the end of the current year," he said.

Khulna Divisional Commissioner M Yunusur Rahman also spoke at the meeting chaired by managing director of West Zone Power Distribution Company Abu Ishaq.

The CA's special assistant earlier visited the under construction 40MW rental power plant at Khalishpur, Khulna Power Company Ltd. and 110MW power plant at Goalpara.

Meanwhile, Dr M Tamim inaugurated the boro paddy harvesting at Daulatpur in the morning and distributed the subsidy money to the marginal farmers against use of diesel-run irrigation pumps for boro cultivation.