Dhaka, Oct. 3 -- A 1,320-megawatt (MW) coal-based Payra Thermal Power Plant set up on 12 acres of land in Kalapara upazila in Patua-khali is likely to start production from next December.

If everything goes according to the plan, 660 MW of electricity from the power plant will be added to the national grid from December this year.

Chinese and Bangladeshi workers are working round the clock to make the power plant fully operational by June 2020.

Sources said that the thermal power plant is a joint venture of the North-West Power Generation Company Bangla-desh Limited (NWPGCL) and China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CMC).

Although the project was expected to be completed within 2019, the work got delayed due to vario...