Dhaka, March 25 -- The Japan International Agency (JICA) on Tuesday signed two loan agreements with the government of Bangladesh at the Economic Relations Division (ERD) to provide Japanese ODA loans of up to a total of 85,819 million yen (equivalent to Tk 6,700 crore).

The loan agreements were signed for the two projects - Food Safety Testing Capacity Development Project (Loan amount: 28,699 million yen) and Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal-Fired Power Project (VIII) (Loan amount: 57,120 million yen).

ERD Secretary Md Shahriar Kader Siddiky and Chief Representative, JICA Bangladesh Office Ichiguchi Tomohide signed the agreements witnessed by Ambassador of Japan to Bangladesh Saida Shinichi.

Under the Food Safety Testing Capacity De...