No Tipai 'harm': Manmohan replies to Khaleda’s letter


Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has sent a reply to the letter written by leader of the opposition and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia asking him not to move  with the Tipaimukh dam project until a joint survey is done.
Indian High Commission sent the reply to the BNP chairperon's  Gulshan office  today (Saturday )morning.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured Khaleda Zia that his country would not take any steps on the Tipaimukh project that would impact adversely on Bangladesh.

India informed the team that the Tipaimukh project would be a hydroelectric project with provisions to control floods and that it would not involve any diversion of water for irrigation.

Khaleda Zia sent the letter to Manmohan through the Indian High Commission in Dhaka on November 22.
On November 24, Manmohan sent his reply to the Indian High Commission. 
She felt the urgency to write to Indian prime minister in the wake of growing resentment in Bangladesh over the recent signing of an agreement on a hydroelectric project on the Barak river at Tipaimukh.