Dhaka, Aug 13 - Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni will be in India early next month to discuss the Tipaimukh dam issue and to follow up on assurances given to a parliamentary delegation that went to study the site.

Moni told the media Wednesday that details of her visit were being worked out and that the visit could be in the first week of September.

Parliamentary delegation leader Abdur Razzaq added that the aerial visit to Tipaimukh in India's Manipur state had yielded three 'achievements' with regard to Bangladesh's concerns about the dam that is proposed to be built on Barak river, the Daily Star reported.

India, he said, had assured the team that the dam was meant for a hydroelectric plant, and was not an irrigation project.

India would not build any barrage or structures for stopping water flowing downstream of Tipaimukh site.

Citing the third 'achievement', Razzaq said: 'India told us about the amount of water to be discharged into the Barak river during the dry season and how much of it will flow into the Surma and Kushiara of Bangladesh, once the dam is built.'

The water flow of the Barak in Bangladesh will increase in the dry season and drop in the rainy season with lessening the possibility of flood, he was quoted as saying by The Daily Star Thursday.

A senior ruling Awami League leader and a former Water Resource minister, Razzaq led a 10-member team to India July 29 to collect facts and documents on the dam project.

The team met Indian ministers and officials. Its landing by helicopters at the site of the proposed dam was, however, thwarted due to inclement weather.

'No one has ever got such categorical assurance in the past from India.