Dhaka, May 7 -- The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase on Thursday approved two separate proposals for purchasing electricity from power plants operated by the North West Power Generation Company Limited(NWPGCL) under revised levelized tariff rates.

The approvals came at a meeting of the committee held at the Secretariat with Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury in the chair.

According to officials, the committee approved a proposal from the Power Division for purchasing electricity from the 225 MW Sirajganj Combined Cycle Power Plant (Unit-2) established by NWPGCL.

Under the proposal, the revised levelized tariff charge has been fixed at US Cents 4.513 per kilowatt-hour, equivalent to Tk 5.541 per kWh, while another tar...