An Indian state-run engineering company that did business with Iraq under Saddam Hussein's regime is sending a team to complete a contract, a news report said Saturday.
Bharat Heavy Electricals will install two turbine generators at Baiji near the northern city of Kirkuk, The Statesman newspaper said.
It said the company had set up one of the plants just before the start of the war last year as part of a 200 million-dollar contract for three generators. "It is a unique situation where we are getting work done in Iraq when most Indian companies have not got a look-in," the report quoted an unidentified company official as saying.
India opposed the US-led war that ousted Saddam and has turned down US requests to send peacekeepers to Iraq, despite calls by domestic industry to take part in the coalition.
The United States initially excluded opponents of the war from bidding for major contracts in Iraq's reconstruction but has since indicated it would reconsider its hard-line stance.