Article 59 A special package program will be brought to support people facing burden of load shedding. The practice of occupying license of hydroelectric project for a longtime will be discouraged. Likewise, bio fuels from domestic resources, alternative energy management among others will be speedily expanded. Article 60 Hydro sector will be developed as the principal medium [...]
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Mahakali Treaty outcome of economic nationalism
By Hari Bansh Jha
It was on 12 February 1996 that the the Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and the then Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narsimha Rao signed an agreement on the integrated development of the Mahakali river in Delhi. The Pancheshwor Project under the Treaty was expected to produce 6,000 MW of hydro-power with the investment cost [...]
Posted in Guest Column on 01-01-2010 Comments (0)
Interview
No alternative to power purchase from India : Mahat
The meeting of the Joint Commission on Water Resources is scheduled for the first week of November and is to be followed soon after by ministerial-level talks that will take up all issues relating to the setting up of the Pancheshwar Development Authority and reach a conclusion. We have informally agreed to locate PDA headquarters in Nepal
Posted in Interview on 08-10-2009 Comments (0)
Opinoin Tank
Analysing food versus fuel
By Damodar Kanel
The future of biofuel is at a crossroads. Soaring fuel prices, debates on global climate change and environmental consequences, and sustainability and intergenerational equity concerns of fossil fuel usage have prompted governments to expand production and use of biofuels. The potential adverse impacts on food security and human suffering associated with biofuel expansion, on the [...]
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