DHAKA, 05 July 2021, (TON): The Company has almost completed the construction of the first unit of Maitree Super Thermal Power Plant in Rampal, around 14 kilometres from the Sundarbans.

Kazi Absar Uddin Ahmed, managing director of the company said "hopefully, we will start generating electricity in December and add it to the national grid."

He told media that we are supposed to get back-feed power through a 230-KV line in the second week of this month to test different types of machinery such as generator and boiler in phases."

He claimed that they have completed more than 80 percent work of the unit and are almost ready to commission the test run.

In 2016, the World Heritage Committee (WHC) of Unesco slapped a set of conditions on Bangladesh government, saying it should not proceed with any "large-scale industrial or infrastructure developments" in the country's southwest region before completion of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for the zone.

It also cautioned that the World Heritage status of the Sundarbans could be cancelled if the government did not comply with the conditions. The WHC is going to review the overall situation at a meeting slated for July 20.