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July 14, 2000 

Dhaka (UNB) - Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Ltd (PGCB) and Mahkota Technologies Ltd of Malaysia signed a contract yesterday for construction of a 450-MVA 230/132 KV Supergrid Substation at Rampura in the city.

The turnkey contract value is Tk 610 million of which foreign currency component is about Tk 500 million, said a press release.

When commissioned in two years the substation will help stabilise power supply in the city. It will be fed by 450MW Meghnaghat, 360MW Haripur and 210MW Siddhirganj power stations.

The Rampura substation is a component of the Meghnaghat Associated Transmission Lines Project, whose foreign currency expenditures are being met from the 9th Power Project loan (US$ 64 million) from the Asian Development Bank.

The implementation of associated 230KV Transmission Lines are going on in full swing under PGCB, added the press release.