Bangladesh seeks more diesel from India amid power shortages

The Story in Brief

Bangladesh has asked India for additional diesel supplies as fuel shortages disrupt power generation and cause load-shedding. Energy Minister Iqbal Hassan Mahmood made the request after meeting Indian High Commissioner Dinesh Trivedi in Dhaka on Thursday. The Economic Times reports that Bangladesh wants more diesel through the existing India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline. The country received around 30,000 tonnes through the pipeline in March and April, but supplies were later halted during the interim administration led by Muhammad Yunus. The Indian High Commission said the meeting also covered cross-border power and energy connectivity, energy security and cooperation based on mutual benefit.

The Indian Opinion

The lazy narrative that Bangladesh’s power trouble can be solved by one neighbour’s fuel shipment misses the wider gas shortage and infrastructure strain. The opposite claim, that energy cooperation is simply political favour, is just as thin. A pipeline already exists, and earlier deliveries show that practical cooperation is possible. The fair test is whether fresh diesel reaches Bangladesh in measurable quantities and whether load-shedding falls afterwards, rather than whether either side issues warmer statements.

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