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Melamchi-drinking Water Project
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On August 3, 2009, Prime Minster Madhav Nepal has opened the building of a 26.5 Km long tunnel to bring water from the Melamchi River to the Kathmandu Valley. The Prime Minister has said that the government has given a top priority to this project. However, his Finance Minister has allocated the budget only for 6 km of the tunnel for the fiscal year 2009.
Minister for Physical Planning and Works Bijaya Gacchedar in his previous incarnation also as the Minister for Physical Planning and Works in the Maoist-led government has awarded the Chinese Company the contract for constructing a tunnel. At that time the government has estimated 52 months for completing the construction of the tunnel but the contractor has said that the company would finished the job in 32 months if no hurdles such as the shutdown of the work by the locals and the workers are cropped up. According to the plan of the contractor, they will start up working at three different sites for building the tunnel.
In 1990, the then Interim Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai has said that he would bring the water from the Melamchi River and washed off the dirt from the Kathmandu Street. However, his successor Girija Prasad Koirala has done nothing for the 15-year of his reign and has caused tremendous sufferings from the shortage of water to the people in the Kathmandu Valley.
