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Sri Lanka and India will begin talks next week on the possibility of integrating the Sri Lanka electricity grid with South Indian power grid, said visiting Indian Commerce Minister Jairam Ramesh yesterday (13).
The feasibility of this project would be studied with an outlay of $3 million. The two countries would share the cost 50:50. The study will be completed in six to eight months.
Besides offering Sri Lanka its expertise in clean energy as per the Kyoto Protocol, India also offered to electrify three villages in Sri Lanka with non-conventional energy as a technology demonstrator and also as a gesture of goodwill.
Talking in more general terms, Minister Ramesh said that he told the Sri Lankan leaders that India believed in laying a strong economic foundation to bilateral relations, and that it was not going to insist on reciprocity in economic matters.
The Indian minister called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama at the end of his three-day visit to the Island. (Courtesy: IANS)
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