Mar 8, 2007 Asia In Focus

The government on Wednesday said it was looking into the possibility of establishing power transmission links with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, while asking other South Asian countries to enhance regional energy cooperation. "We would suggest the approach of building country-to-country grid interconnections as building blocks for making feasible flow of electricity across the region," Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Energy Ministers' meeting here.

* India has grid interconnections with Nepal and Bhutan.

* Bhutan's Rs 41.24 billion (US$928 million) Tala project provides at least 70-80 per cent of the 1,030 MW that is generated in the plant.

Indian government examining possibility of establishing power transmission links with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh

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