Dhaka, Aug. 11 -- Bangladesh plans to set up another pipeline near Satkhira border to import LNG from India to feed Sunderban Gas Distribution Company. The new pipeline will supply fuel based power plants and industries in the south-eastern part of the country.

Bangladesh currently imports around 4,400 tonnes of diesel every month from the Numaligarh refinery of Assam, owned by another state-owned Indian oil company, the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL).

"The GTCL (Gas transmission company ltd) is working to install the pipeline near Satkhira bordering areas to implement the pipeline, we have signed a MoU during the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit in India," State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hami...