Posted on 01 January 2010 by editor
The recent Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s visit to China has brought home some good assurances from the Chinese government. Among others, youth exchange programs between Nepal and China, and MoU for West Seti are significant. With rise of activities against China in Nepali soil, the number of Nepali visiting China for various purposes has declined in [...]
Posted on 08 June 2009 by editor
Along with the UCPN-Maoists decision to quit the first republic government, the vision of generating 10,000 MW of hydropower in the next 10 years is getting less attention now-a-days. The Nepali citizens are yet to evaluate the commitment of the UML-led government towards this. The present Common Minimum Programs signed and forwarded by 22 parties a [...]
Posted on 27 March 2009 by editor
Indeed, every action fails if there is lack of strong commitment to what we plan. When we aim high, we need to be strongly committed towards our actions, and the goals. For a country like ours, words are seen more vibrant than actions. Same is the case regarding generation of hydropower as targeted by the present government. The power crisis has crippled life of every Nepali citizen. Further, it has become almost as usual for tourists to witness over-dozed load shedding hours in Nepal. It is hard to tell how long electricity comes to our rooms rather than remembering number of power-cut hours in a week!
Posted on 24 January 2009 by editor
The reduction of load-shedding from 108 hours to 96 hours a week does not bring any substantial change to the lives of Nepalis. After all, power outages have merely been brought down from 16 to 14 hours per day. The two extra hours of power mostly come on in the dead of night, when a majority of the country's inhabitants are already asleep. But still, the very fact that blackouts have decreased, however insignificantly, provides a psychological boost to the nation's citizens, giving a sense that the worst is over
Posted on 11 December 2008 by editor
Several years back, the then Prime Minister Krishna Prashad Bhattarai vowed for economic revolution in Nepal, and subsequently supported by veteran politician and former Prime Minister Girija Prashad Koirala. However, this concept appeared into reality only when the first President of Republic Nepal, Dr. Ram Baran Yadhav, declared the coming decade as a 'Decade of Economic Revolution' in the programs and policies of GoN
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 [...]
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
By Sudheer Raj Sharma Dhakal
The well-versed 750 MW West Seti Hydroelectric Project (WSHP) is once again capturing major energy headlines in both the print and electronic media of Nepal. Looked as a porthole for the development of the Far Western Development Region (FWDR) that has received the least development privilege, this project has been lingering for more than a [...]
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