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Sandwip, an island in the Bay of Bengal, is now connected with the national power grid using submarine cable.
The Bangladesh Power Development Board started supplying power to the island, located in Chattogram district with a population of around 400,000, from Thursday afternoon.
According to bdnews24.com, the authorities had been supplying power through only around 400 connections in the island on a limited scale using oil-run generators until now.
BPDB spokesman Saiful Hasan Chowdhury said a 15-kilometre cable has been set up under the sea from Sitakunda to Sandwip as part of developing power distribution system in Chattogram.
"It took Tk 1.45 billion to complete the project in 22 months," Saiful said.
Sandwip Municipality Mayor Zafarullah Titu said this initiative is the reflection of the pledge made by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during her Sandwip visit in 2012.