61.   They include a telephone system overhaul by Siemens and an airport expansion project by Hochtief.

62.   They noted expansion projects were deferred after steep falls in the peso-dollar exchange rate pulled up the cost of their foreign currency-denominated loans.

63.   Under the agreement, the government canceled a contract for a water expansion project and revised a water law to end fees for rural well water.

64.   A television report speculated that radicals opposed to an expansion project for the airport might have carried out the attack.

65.   Based on current prices, only expansion projects are viable.

66.   But Bhargava said the government was yet to finalise the funding plan for the expansion project.

67.   But they have been unable to boost actual output over the past three years although expansion projects have created large surplus in their capacities.

68.   But they warned of constraints, including lack of funds to finance expansion projects because of the decline in crude prices.

69.   The reported go-ahead for their proposals marks the lifting of a freeze on Indian companies wishing to sell equity in foreign markets to fund expansion projects.

70.   They have warned the tax could cause a supply shortage in future as it could dissuade major producers from going ahead with oil expansion projects.