India ready to sell 100MW electricity to Bangladesh: Modi

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today 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, an adviser to Prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar at the inaugural ceremony of the 750MW gas-driven Palatana power project in Udaipur of the state.
Both Chowdhury and Sarkar were present in the function, reports our New Delhi correspondent.
Later, addressing a massive rally on the occasion there, Modi said if Bangladesh wanted to buy power from India, his country was willing, according to an official statement.
He said Tripura was the area which had stood shoulder to shoulder with the people of Bangladesh during the Liberation War in 1971.
He thanked Hasina for facilitating the movement of machinery for the Palatana project, which helped 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.