Ready to welcome Adani Group if it renegotiates pricing: SL trade min

THE Sri Lankan government will welcome Adani Group as an investor if the company is open to renegotiate the pricing, said the country's commerce minister Wasantha Samarasinghe during an interaction with TNIE at an event organised by PHDCCI on Friday.

- PUSHPITA DEY NewDelhi

Adani can also reduce and reconsider the price, he said, adding that "whatever the situation, as a government they think about the investment and its effect on the people and the country." Adani Green Energy withdrew from a 484 megawatt (MW) wind project in northern Sri Lanka after the government in Sri Lanka wanted to renegotiate the terms of the project in February. Adani Green Energy Ltd had then told Sri Lanka's Board of Investment that it would "respectfully withdraw" from the wind project following discussions with officials who