Five international companies have submitted proposals for commissioning the Dhading-based Budhi Gandaki Hydropower Project with installed capacity of 600-MW. Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) had formed a committee headed by its board member Lekhman Singh Bhandary a month ago to assess the financial and technical capability of the five proposing companies. The committee is preparing financial and [...]
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Govt seeks WB funding for Upper Arun project
Posted on 24 February 2010 by editor
KATHMANDU, FEB 21 - The government has asked the World Bank (WB) to construct Upper Arun Hydropower Project (335 MW). During a meeting held between Energy Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat and Isabel Guerreo, World Bank Vice President for South Asian Region, on Sunday, the ministry put forward the proposal for investment in Upper Arun project. In September [...]
Govt conservation efforts mar power generation
Posted on 14 January 2010 by editor
Government's nature conservation efforts are impeding hydropower generation. On Dec. 4, 2009, the Cabinet meeting held in Kalapatthar had decided to expand the Bardia National Park from 968 sq. km. to 1862 sq. km. The highaltitude meet aimed at drawing global attention towards melting Himalayas saw declaration of the Gaurishanker Conservation Area. It covers 2035 sq. km
Govt to rein in water extractors
Posted on 01 January 2010 by editor
KATHMANDU, DEC 25 - The government has initiated a study of the groundwater situation in the Kathmandu Valley to rein in private water extractors by issuing licences. The Supreme Court had, on Dec. 17, had issued a verdict, directing the government to manage the groundwater situation by regulating and restricting the operation of private water tanker [...]
तामाकोसीलाई ६ अर्ब दिन टेलिकम तयार
Posted on 08 October 2009 by editor
काठमाडौ, २०६६ आश्विन २२ - वित्तीय व्यवस्थापन हुन नसकेका कारण निर्माणमा ढिलाइ भइरहेको बहुचर्चित माथिल्लो तामाकोसी -४५६ मेगावाट) मा नेपाल टेलिकमले ६ अर्ब रुपैयाँ ऋण लगानी गर्ने भएको छ । टेलिकमले ऋण सम्झौता गरेपछि माथिल्लो तामाकोसीका लागि आवश्यक लगानी पूरा हुनेछ । विद्युत प्राधिकरण र टेलिकमद्वारा गठित उच्चस्तरीय वार्ता कमिटीले बुधबार माथिल्लो तामाकोसीमा लगानी गर्न सिफारिस [...]
Flood, landslide in various districts
Posted on 18 August 2009 by editor
Normal life in various districts has been affected due to the landslides and floods triggered by incessant rainfall on Tuesday. A person has been killed and other four injured due to a landslip in Dadeldhura district this morning. Minor Ganesh Thapa of Amargadi Municipality-5 died after his house collapsed in the landslide, the police informed
Pancheswor shouldn’t be finalised: Dahal
Posted on 18 August 2009 by editor
DOHA, Aug 18 - Unified CPN (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Tuesday stressed that the issue of Pancheswor Hydropower Project should not be finalised during the Prime Minister’s India visit. There are some flaws in the section of water and electricity from the early days, he added. Dahal said so this morning in Doha, Qatar prior to [...]
Hydropower gets huge budget boost
Posted on 14 July 2009 by editor
KATHMANDU, July 13 - The government has decided to formulate programmes to develop 25,000 MW in the next two decades. The previous government led by UCPN (Maoist) had projected development of 10,000 MW in the next ten years. The allocated budget for hydropower is Rs. 14 billion 690 million for this fiscal year. This marks a 131 percent rise compared to the revised estimates of the previous fiscal year. Construction work at the 130 MW [...]
Plan sought to shield power projects
Posted on 14 July 2009 by editor
The Independent Power Producers' Association of Nepal (IPPAN) has urged the government to come up with a plan to stop disturbances that obstruct the operation of hydropower projects. At a meeting with Minister for Energy Prakash Sharan Mahat on Friday, a delegation of IPPAN submitted to the minister a memorandum that condemned the obstructing of hydropower projects by locals. Recently, [...]
Melamchi work begins next month
Posted on 14 July 2009 by editor
KATHMANDU, July 10 - After years of delay, construction of the tunnel that will bring 170 million litres of water per day to the Capital is set to begin in the first week of August. Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will lay the foundation stone of the diversion tunnel on August 3. The much-anticipated project, which promises to end the drinking water woes of Kathmandu Valley is expected to be completed in [...]
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Guest Column
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 [...]
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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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