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Completing Some Hydropower Projects In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 30, 2012: the state-run news agency RSS has reported that at least four hydropower projects such as 10 mw Sipring Khola, 42 mw Mistrikhola, 38 mw Nilgiri and 10 mw Ghalemdi Khola are completing soon, and 100 mw power will be added to the main power grid, and the government has been pushing other hydropower projects such as 456 MW Upper Tamakoshi, and 164 mw Kaligandaki Gorge to expedite their work.
Nepal has been facing the serious power shortage during the last two decades as the administration run by the NC leaders during the last two decades have failed in building any hydropower plants. Currently, Nepal has 56-hour-power outage every week it might go on increasing as the dry season sets in causing low level of water in the rivers from where hydropower is harnessed. Low level of water causes low yield of hydropower.
Shortage of power has domino effect on the Nepalese economy. As sufficient power is not available, water supply becomes irregular and low, as the water-supplying agency cannot pump sufficient water. Lack of power and water adversely affect the industrial outputs causing laying off of labors. Shortage of power and water equally harms other businesses, too.
