Kathmandu, Nov. 27 -- Bangladesh will import an additional 20 megawatts of electricity from Nepal, taking the total to 60 megawatts.

The agreement was reached during the 7th Nepal-Bangladesh Energy Secretary-level Joint Steering Committee (JSC) meeting held in Dhaka on Thursday. The meeting was co-chaired by Nepal's Energy Secretary Chiranjeevi Chataut and Farzana Momtaz, secretary at the Ministry of Power, Bangladesh.

The decisions endorsed at the meeting follow the recommendations of the joint task force, which met on November 20 under the leadership of Sandeep Kumar Dev, joint secretary at Nepal's Ministry of Energy, and KM Ali Reza, additional secretary at Bangladeshi Ministry of Power.

"It has been agreed that Bangladesh will impo...