Ground has been cleared for the three countries to sign the agreement on exporting electricity to Bangladesh, said Chandan Kumar Ghosh, spokesperson at Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) -- the government-owned electricity body.
Nepal will sign a tripartite power trading deal next week to export 40 MW of electricity to Bangladesh via India, a senior official said on Thursday. This will be the first time in history that the Himalayan nation will sell electricity to a third country other than India.
Ground has been cleared for the three countries to sign the agreement on exporting electricity to Bangladesh, said Chandan Kumar Ghosh, spokesperson at Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) -- the government-owned electricity body.
The Power Sales Agreement will be signed by officials from the NEA, the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB), and the NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Ltd (NVVN) of India at a function here on July 28, Ghosh said.
Nepal's Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Dipak Khadka, India's Power Minister, Manohar Lal Khattar, and Bangladesh's Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister, Nasrul Hamid, will witness the signing ceremony, he said.
