Dinajpur, April 24 -- Power generation at the Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant resumed on Friday night after remaining shut for two days due to a mechanical fault.

With the restart, around 55 to 65 megawatts of electricity is being added to the national grid, officials said.

Chief Engineer Abu Bakkar Siddique said the problem was detected during coal dusting before feeding fuel into the furnace, when stones mixed with coal caused a mechanical fault in the system.

The plant's only operational Unit-1 had been shut down at 10:02pm on Wednesday for repairs. Following maintenance, the unit resumed power generation at 8:07pm on Friday.

Meanwhile, work is underway to bring the 275MW Unit-3 into operation in the first half of May, he added.

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