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dam-l (Fwd) LS: Kashmir again to be faced with a number of Large Dam
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Date sent: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:54:47 -0800
From: patrick@irn.org (Patrick McCully)
Subject: LS: Kashmir again to be faced with a number of Large Dams
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>India's Kashmir, Jaiprakash Ind sign pact
>07:07 a.m. Apr 11, 1999 Eastern
>JAMMU, India, April 11 (Reuters) - India's Jaiprakash Industries Ltd
>signed an agreement with the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir on
>Sunday for a 450-megawatt hydro-electric power plant, a minister said.
>
>``This is a leap forward towards the harnessing the vast potential of
>1,000 megawatts of hydel resources in the state,'' Jammu and Kashmir
>chief minister Farooq Abdullah said at the signing ceremony.
>
>The project, at Bhagliar in Jammu, will take five years and cost 34.95
>billion rupees ($819 million), a government statement said.
>
>A consortium of Germany's Siemens AG and Vevey Ltd will execute the
>electromechanical part of the project as agreed with the state last
>year, it said.
>
>Abdullah said the state planned several other energy projects which
>would power the northern region of the country.
>
>Reuters
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