India on Saturday added some energy to its limping ties with Bangladesh by formally switching on electricity exports and breaking ground for a power project to be built by state-run generation utility NTPC in that country.
PM Manmohan Singh and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina jointly inaugurated through video conference the special link built by PowerGrid Corporation to transmit power and laid the foundation stone for a 1,320 mw coal-fired plant in Khulna, some 134 km from Dhaka. Describing the development as “historic moment when we embark on a new partnership for prosperity between our two countries,” Singh said the destinies of the two countries are “interlinked.
Hasina, present at a sub-station in western Bheramara, 240 km from Dhaka, was joined by India's new and renewable energy minister Farooq Abdullah. “The inter-grid connectivity is part of an immediate solution, which would go a long way to alleviate the power deficit in Bangladesh,” Hasina said.
PM Manmohan Singh and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina jointly inaugurated through video conference the special link built by PowerGrid Corporation to transmit power and laid the foundation stone for a 1,320 mw coal-fired plant in Khulna, some 134 km from Dhaka. Describing the development as “historic moment when we embark on a new partnership for prosperity between our two countries,” Singh said the destinies of the two countries are “interlinked.
Hasina, present at a sub-station in western Bheramara, 240 km from Dhaka, was joined by India's new and renewable energy minister Farooq Abdullah. “The inter-grid connectivity is part of an immediate solution, which would go a long way to alleviate the power deficit in Bangladesh,” Hasina said.
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