The 940-megawatt power plant, installed at a cost of Tk 2,700 crore, might face a major disaster at any time resulting in disruption of power distribution in Narsingdi and rest of the country.

In January 1974, the plant first started its operation by producing 55 MW of electricity. The first unit was commissioned at a cost of Tk 150 crore.

The plant's second unit with a 55-MW capacity, built at a cost of Tk 175 crore, went into production in February 1976.

The 210-MW capacity third unit of the plant was built at a cost of Tk 550 crore and commissioned in September 1986.

The 210-MW fourth unit, also built at a cost of Tk 550 crore, went into production in 1989 while another 210-MW fifth, costing Tk 600 crore, was commissioned in 1994.

Finally, the other 210-MW capacity sixth unit was installed in January 1999 at a cost of Tk 700 crore. Russian Technogram Export Company installed the unit.

The production capacity of the units is valid for 20 years. All the units were scheduled for overhauling every five years. But in last 38 years, overhauling was not done in any of these six units. As a result, production capacity of these units is gradually coming down. So far, these units were shut down 200 times. In each month, production stops in one or two units.

An executive engineer of the plant told the news agency that the overhauling of the units were not being done due to mysterious reasons. The entire Ghorashal power plant might go out of order if overhauling is not done immediately, the engineer said on condition of anonymity.