# Hasina’s government proceeds with the Rampal coal plant near the Sundarbans

Date: 2016

## The fact

In 2016 the [Hasina](/people/sheikh-hasina) government proceeded with the India-backed Rampal coal-fired plant near the Sundarbans despite UNESCO-adjacent warnings.

## Context

BPDB and NTPC sat. She did not sit as a stoker. A coal plant near a mangrove is still a dated decarbonization-and-deforestation-risk instrument.

Padma is a neighbouring megaproject row. COP files are related-news weather.

Bangladesh’s prime minister chairs the cabinet and can order security forces under statute. She does not write an Indian extradition order, a UN body-count as if it were a gazette, a 2026 Tarique Rahman cabinet minute, or an ICJ merits judgment. She fled on 5 August 2024; as of August 2026 she is in India, not in office. Country is Bangladesh, not Pakistan. A RAB warrant is not a completed finding that every disappeared person was thereby a militant. Allegation of a stolen 2018 count is stored as a contested election, not as a completed steal. A 2026 Delhi audio is not a return.

## Evidence and sources

Bangladesh Power Development Board carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [fossil-fuel dependence](/drivers/fossil-fuel-dependence) and deforestation pressure: a completed coal-plant go-ahead near the Sundarbans is an environmental-risk instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2016 continued Rampal coal-plant path under her, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later hectare coefficient from one pour, or that UNESCO inscribed a delisting that day.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

BPDB/NTPC built. Environmental groups protested. India co-financed.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Hasina’s government proceeds with the Rampal coal plant near the Sundarbans, not a later speech about Hasina’s government proceeds with the Rampal coal plant near the Sundarbans.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Hasina’s government proceeds with the Rampal coal plant near the Sundarbans on 2016-10-10 is not a licence to treat every later Bangladesh Power Development Board communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Hasina’s government proceeds with the Rampal coal plant near the Sundarbans into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Cabinet backed. BPDB/NTPC built. Environmental groups protested. India co-financed. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Sheikh Hasina: https://factrail.ai/people/sheikh-hasina

## Drivers

- Fossil-Fuel Dependence: https://factrail.ai/drivers/fossil-fuel-dependence
- Tropical deforestation pressure: https://factrail.ai/drivers/env-deforestation-pressure

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bangladesh-coal-idUSKCN12A0K4
- https://www.bpdb.gov.bd/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/bd-hasina-rampal-2016