Foreign debt rising, $50 billion in pipeline, more $161 billion pledged

Own representative, Dhaka, December 31: Russia is lending a total of 11.385 billion dollars to Bangladesh for the construction of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant. Three billion dollars have already been spent. More than eight billion dollars are left to spend. There is currently 50.36 billion USD in the pipeline for various development projects. Considering 85 rupees per dollar, the amount in Bangladeshi currency is 4 lakh 26 thousand 133 crore rupees. The pipeline has almost the same amount of money in the current financial year.