The cabinet on Monday approved a proposal for signing a cooperation treaty with the Russian government for construction of Rooppur nuclear power plant.
The science and ICT ministry placed the proposal at the weekly cabinet meeting with the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, in the chair.
'The cabinet has approved the proposal for signing a cooperation treaty with the Russian government to set up the Rooppur nuclear power plant,' the prime minister's press secretary Abul Kalam Azad told reporters after the meeting.
He said the initiative was originally taken by the country's founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1974.
The meeting also approved in principle the draft of the Bangabandhu Poverty Alleviation and Rural Development Academy Bill, 2011.
The academy, to be operated under the Bangladesh Rural Development Board, would be established in Gopalganj, Abul Kalam added.
On February 24, Bangladesh signed a framework agreement with Russia for setting up a 2,000megawatts power plant at Rooppur in Pabna, after parliament approved it on December 9, 2010. The work on the project is expected to start by 2012.
Source : New Age
