Dhaka, March 4 -- State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said that Bangladesh and India have a huge opportunity to work together for the development of the power and energy sector.

"We want to import 9000 MW of electricity from the neighboring countries. The process to import hydro-electricity from Nepal and Bhutan has made a good advance," Hamid told Indian High Commission in Bangladesh Pranay Verma when he called on him at his office in the ministry.

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He also informed the Indian envoy a deal is likely to be signed next month to import 40 MW of hydro-power from Nepal.

He said that the import of 500 MW of electricity fr...