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| Subject: India is increasingly turning to the private sector to deliver the electricity Sat Jul 30, 2011 4:07 am | |
| The path to success meant bypassing the mineral wealth beneath Indian soil, write Jim Yardley and Vikas Bajaj in Mundra, India.
On a recent wind-whipped morning, a steel-hulled behemoth arrived at a desolate stretch of India's western coast groaning with enough coal to power a city of 1 million people for more than two weeks.
The ship, the Vanshi, was carrying coal from Indonesia, a two-week trip across the Indian Ocean. India has its own abundant reserves of coal, which raises a question: why did India need to go so far to get something it already had?
http://www.smh.com.au/world/mogul-steers-own-path-to-riches-20110729-1i44z.html |
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