Dhaka, July 27 - The Bangladesh team preparing to study the Tipaimukh dam project in India has promised to do its 'best', but says it would depend upon the extent to which the hosts facilitate all its movements.

'We will not be able to roam around at will while visiting the Tipaimukh dam, as we will be guided by the Indian counterpart,' chief of the delegation Abdur Razzaq, who is also chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on water resources, told the media Sunday.

A former minister, Razzaq leads an 11-member team of parliamentarians, officials and a water resource expert to the site of the proposed dam over Barak river in India's Manipur state.

The team is scheduled to leave Dhaka Wednesday for a six-day visit.

Razzaq said it will try its best to collect as much information and documents as possible for assessing the dam's effect on Bangladesh.

'We will move around as much as they will allow us,' Razzaq was quoted as saying in The Daily Star Monday.

About the ambit of the delegation's investigation, Razzaq said: 'We will try to assess how much damage to our environment the proposed dam is likely to cause. We will ask our expert to assess the matter.'

'We will also try to find out whether any structure is already built on the Barak river.