Narendra Modi Roams The World In Attempt to Secure India's Energy Supply — forbes.com

Exactly Six months after taking oath as India’s prime minister and logging state visits to at least eight countries, a pattern has begun to emerge on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign excursions. Foremost on Modi’s travel agenda is securing India’s energy supply, a key ingredient for the country’s economic growth. This week, Modi has hit Nepal nestling in the Himalayas. There, his government has just overseen an agreement between the Nepalese government and an Indian firm to build a 900 MW hydroelectricity plant that will export three-quarters of its output to India. The $1.04 billion 900 MW Arun III hydropower station is to start producing energy by 2020.

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