Against this backdrop, Sputnik India spoke to an expert to find out what the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant can bring to Bangladesh's economy and people.
"First of all, it is a high-tech project. Therefore, this project will train specialists for Bangladesh for decades. [...] We are talking about more than 1,500 specialists in the initial stage, and on the basis of specialized Bangladeshi universities", the expet said.
"So the impact of this plant, this project on the country is quite multifactorial, multidirectional. But it is also very important, in my opinion, that it will become a kind of anchor for Russian-Bangladeshi relations for many years", Khlopkov said.
According to Khlopkov "it is worth mentioning that today Bangladesh is a country with a shortage of electricity. In recent years, about 10% of the consumed electricity was supplied by India. In other words, Bangladesh has not been self-sufficient in electricity".
"In addition, Bangladesh's power sector is one of the fastest growing in the South Asian region. For example, generation capacity has almost tripled in the last 10-12 years. And this trend is expected to continue", Khlopkov noted.