SRI LANKA

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE SRI Lankan government has been urged by a working group of its National Development Council to proceed with the 300MW Norochcholai Coal Power Project immediately, if it wants to avert a future electricity crisis. The group wants the plant commissioned and generating power by January 2006, with a possible expansion being carried out by 2010.



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