Visiting team leaves Assam for Tipaimukh site

The 10-member Bangladesh parliament delegation left Guwahati of Assam this morning for the Tipaimukh dam project site near the confluence of Barak and Tuivai rivers, in Manipur, India.

The delegation headed by Abdur Razzaq flew in a helicopter for having a firsthand look of the controversial hydroelectric dam on the third day of the five-day visit, reports ATN Bangla.

India yesterday assured Bangladesh that there would be no diversion of water flow due to the Tipaimukh hydropower project.

The assurance came during a meeting between Indian Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and the Bangladesh parliament delegation at the Shram-Shakti Bhawan that houses the Indian power ministry.

The Bangladeshi MPs raised a number of queries regarding the project and articulated their concerns over certain areas, to which the Indian power minister and officials responded.

The meeting with the Indian power minister was the high-point of the second day of the five-day visit of the delegation which later left for Guwahati in Assam where they had a night's halt before flying to Tipaimukh project this morning.