Bangladesh calls for tie-up in energy with India, Nepal

Bangladesh News.Net
Thursday 3rd May, 2007 (IANS)

Dhaka, May 3 (Xinhua) In the wake of an endemic power shortage, Bangladesh has placed formal offer with India and Nepal to have access to hydroelectric potential in the two neighbouring nations, the Bangladeshi news agency UNB reported Thursday.

Bangladesh Energy and Power Advisor Tapan Chowdhury Thursday disclosed the move. Dhaka is awaiting response from the two neighbours, he said.

'We are waiting for the official response from New Delhi and Kathmandu,' he told reporters in Dhaka on Thursday.

Chowdhury said that soon after his return from SAARC (the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Energy Ministers' conference in New Delhi in March, he formally wrote to his counterparts in India and Nepal about Bangladesh's interest in having access to their reserve of hydroelectricity.

He said the proposal was sent in line with the discussion on regional cooperation in SAARC Energy Ministers' conference.

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