Delhi ready to sell 100MW to Bangladesh

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said New Delhi was ready to sell 100MW of electricity to Bangladesh.

He made the remark while responding to a request from Tawfique-e-Elahi Chowdhury, Advisor to Bangladesh Prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and Tripura state Chief Minister Manik Sarkar at the inaugural ceremony of the 750MW gas-driven Palatana power project in Udaipur of Tripura state.

Both Chowdhury and Sarkar were present in the function.

Later, addressing a massive rally on the occasion there, Modi said if Bangladesh wanted to buy power from India, India was willing, according to an official statement issued here.

He said Tripura was the area which had stood shoulder to shoulder with the people of Bangladesh during the Liberation War 1971.

He thanked Hasina for facilitating the movement of machinery for the Palatana project, which helped to build the plant.

Modi said such cooperation between India and Bangladesh "is a message for the entire Saarc region."

He said all globally-accepted norms of green energy were being followed in Palatana power plant which represented one of the biggest investments in the north-east region.