Sources say the servicing of the plant could take up to two months to complete.

The decision was made in order to make the plant completely fit for production and help meet the demands of 21 districts under West Zone Power Distribution Company Limited (WZPDCL), said chief engineer of Goalpara Power Station.

PDB Consultant Shamsul Alam arrived in Khulna on Wednesday evening to inspect the plant and its boilers and tubes.

Sources in the Goalpara Power Station said a team, which arrived from Ghorashal Power Station on Wednesday, is expected to start the overhauling work from today or tomorrow after they identify the faults in the plant.

Currently, one 60-MW and two 28-MW barge-mounted units of the station are also out of order. Sources in the WZPDCL said all efforts to improve the nagging power crisis went in vain, as age-old units of the station have already lost their ability to produce at full capacity.

The 21 districts of Khulna and Barisal divisions and greater Faridpur under WZPDCL were supplied with 310 MW of electricity on Wednesday against their daily demand of 600 MW, a WZPDCL source said. Khulna city received only 53 MW against its daily demand of 112 MW.

The 110-MW unit of Goalpara Power Station tripped 17 times in the last four months. Each time it tripped it needed Tk 8 lakh for repairs of the boiler tubes and resume production. Yet, it failed to continue power generation for even three days at a stretch.

Sources of Goalpara Power Station said a full overhauling of the 110-MW plant would cost over Tk 150 crore.