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Govt to procure 1.30 lakh tonnes of diesel from India

Special Correspondent || risingbd.com

Published: 16:36, 28 January 2025   Update: 16:57, 28 January 2025
Govt to procure 1.30 lakh tonnes of diesel from India

The government will procure 1.30 lakh tonnes of diesel from India to particularly to cater the fuel needs in the northwestern part of the country.

The final approval came from the Committee of the Advisers Council on Government Purchase at the Secretariat on Tuesday (January 28).

Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed presided over the meeting.

Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) will import diesel from India's Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) at an estimated cost of Tk. 1,137 crore under a g to g (Government to Government) agreement.

BPC officials said the whole consignment of the fuel would come through the cross-border pipeline from India's Numaligarh refinery, located in Golaghat in its north-eastern Assam state.

Bangladesh will receive the diesel at Parbatipur petroleum fuel depot in northwestern Dinajpur for distribution in specific destinations.

The friendship pipeline was constructed as part Bangladesh-India energy cooperation to especially to import diesel from India. Diesel is the highest volume of petroleum which Bangladesh imports from abroad.
 

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