Cabinet okays intend to create first waste-based power plant
The federal government yesterday gave its nod to a proposal to create the country's first ever waste-based power plant.
The state-run Bangladesh Ability Development Board now has permission to determine the plant in Jalkuri under Narayanganj district.
At a gathering chaired by Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, the cabinet committee on pay for permitted BPDB to sign an agreement with a consortium of the UD Environmental Equipment Technology Co., Everbright Environmental Cover Technology Tools (Changzhou) and SABS Syndicate for the plant.
The deal would be signed for twenty years.
Once completed, this might be the country's first electric power plant fired by waste. The capability of the plant is normally six megawatts.
BPDB would pay out Tk 1,665.48 crore to the consortium to get electricity from the plant during the period. Per kilowatt-hour energy would cost Tk 17.60.
Yesterday, the committee permitted a total of six proposals involving Tk 2,568 crore.
It gave its consent to a proposal to get 1,02,720 SPC (spun pre-stressed cement) poles for Tk 164.87 crore. The Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board would choose the tools from Bangladesh Machine Equipment Factory Ltd in the form of imports.
State-run Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) would buy 30,000 tonnes of bagged granular urea fertilizer for Tk 66.92 crore from Karnaphuli Fertiliser Provider.
BCIC also got authorization to get 30,000 tonnes of phosphoric acid from its subsidiary, DAP Fertilizer Enterprise Ltd, in the form of imports for Tk 87.59 crore.
Meanwhile, the committee allowed the meals department to get 2 lakh tonnes wheat for Tk 437.56 crore from Moscow-based Prodintorg.
Per tonne of wheat would cost $258, said Nasima Begum, an additional secretary of the cabinet division.
The government includes a plan to import 5 lakh tonnes of wheat in today's fiscal year.
The committee awarded among the public work portions of a project that's converting the Kurigram (Dasherhat)-Nageshwari-Bhurungamari-Sonahat Landport Road into a countrywide highway to a jv of Spectra Engineers Ltd Rana Builders (Pvt) Ltd. The portion will be built at a price of Tk 145.63 crore.
The cabinet committee on financial affairs approved a proposal from the energy and mineral resources ministry to get 49.80 lakh tonnes of petroleum products in 2021.
The Bangladesh Petroleum Company would buy 39.60 lakh tonnes of gas oil, 4.8 lakh tonnes of Jet A-1 (an aviation gas), 1.8 lakh tonnes of mogas (light aircraft gas), 0.80 lakh tonnes of furnace oil and 2.8 lakh tonnes of marine gas.
