Cmc Signs Agreement With German Firm

The Calcutta Municipal Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding with the German firm AWE for mapping out underground drinking water pipelines in 41 wards in the citys southern parts.

AWE, which specialises in environmental engineering, recently worked out a cost-effective technology to remove arsenic from drinking water and chemically detoxify the sludge on behalf of the West Bengal public health engineering department.

A seven-member Indo-German group, comprising members of the German parliament (Deutscher Bundestag), today arrived on a three-day visit to Calcutta.

Their visit coincides with that of a 20-member German business delegation team led by Juergen Seidel, minister of economics of the north German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Seidel will inaugurate the first joint business office of companies in India at Salt Lake.

 

The office will help establish contact between German and Indian entrepreneurs.

Both the delegations will explore possibilities of enhancing economic cooperation between Germany and eastern India, including investment opportunities and joint ventures. They will offer technology for renewable energy and examine the possibilities of jointly producing wind energy installations, small hydro-electric power plants and other technical projects.

The Indo-German Chamber of Commerce will organise a meet and hold talks with chief minister Jyoti Basu and the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation chairman Somnath Chatterjee.