Bangladesh has scrapped ten coal-fired power plants that were okayed earlier. as the construction work made no progress in years, according to a minister.

Prime Minister Shaikh Hasian accepted the proposal to annul the projects following a proposal from the power and energy ministry, minister Nasrul Hamid told The Daily Star.

"Our current plan is to generate between 10,000MW and 12,000MW of electricity from coal by 2030," the state minister said.

The 10 discarded projects are among the 18 planned coal-fired plants that were approved after 2008.

"Now we are planning to use liquefied natural gas [LNG] and petroleum to generate power. But the government has yet to make a plan on how an LNG-fired power plant can be set up," he said.

(SAM)