What is the approved budget of Rampal Power Station?
The Maitree Super Thermal Power Project (Rampal Power Station) is a 1,320 MW coal-fired plant of two 660 MW units at Rampal in Bagerhat district, Bangladesh, built by Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited for the Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company, a 50:50 joint venture of India's NTPC and Bangladesh's BPDB, financed through an Indian Exim Bank EPC package, with the notice to proceed on 24 April 2017, Unit 1 starting production in December 2022 and Unit 2 operating from 12 March 2024. BIFPCL's 2019 project synopsis gives the board-approved cost as BDT 16,000 crore, and the Financial Express in December 2022 gave about Tk 160 billion (USD 2.0 billion).
Approved budget
BDT 160 billion
Approximately $2.04 billion
Cost basis: 2016
Cost evidence
Basis of the published figure
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Key dimensions
- PowerBangladesh-India Friendship Power Company Ltd
- 1,320 MW
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