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Germany and India on Tuesday signed an two agreements to fund 125 million Euros for the Green Energy Corridors' project in Andhra Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. Government hopes to roll out a new goods and services tax (GST) in 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday while addressing Indian and German businesses at the Indo-German Summit in Bangalore Germany and India on Tuesday signed an two agreements to fund 125 million Euros for the Green Energy Corridors’ project in Andhra Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. Germany’s development bank, KFW, will fund 57 million Euro for the project at Himachal Pradesh, and 68 million Euro for the Andhra Pradesh project, a press statement from the government said. The agreements were signed at a time when Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel is on a state visit in India. Renewable Energy is one of the key areas of India-German partnership. The financing of the transmission infrastructure of renewable energy projects, the