INDIA TO GET U.K. COAL, STEEL INDUSTRY GRANTS

  India will get 104.65 mln stg as
  grants from Britain to develop its coal, zinc and lead
  industries, the British Information Services said in a
  statement.
      It said a 31 mln stg grant would be disbursed over three to
  four years under an agreement signed here yesterday between the
  Indian Finance Ministry and the British Overseas Development
  Administration.
      The British grants for developing the Indian coal industry
  using British mechanised longwall technology totalled 52 mln
  stg in the past 10 years, it said.
      Under a separate agreement, the British government agreed
  to provide 73.65 mln stg as a grant to develop a zinc and lead
  mine at Rampura-Agucha and an associated smelting complex at
  Chaneriya, both in India's northern state of Rajasthan, the
  statement said.
      The grant will finance the basic engineering for the
  smelter complex to be undertaken by Britain's &lt;Davy McKee> of
  Stockton. It will also help develop the mine complex, it added.
  

