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Bangladesh is yet to raise an issue with China on the latter’s plan to construct a dam upstream Brahmaputra river for hydroelectric project, said Seheli Sabrin, spokesperson of Bangladesh’s Ministry of foreign affairs in Dhaka on Thursday. In a response to a question during routine briefing she said that Bangladesh is working to collect information about the construction of eight hydroelectric dams by China on the upstream of the Brahmaputra River.
In March 2021, China’s parliament adopted the 14th five year plan, which includes 60 gigawatts hydropower projects on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet near Arunachal Pradesh. According to statistics, at least 60 percent of Bangladesh’s population relies on the Brahmaputra’s catchment basin.