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Sending Low Quality Transformers Back To China
By KTM Metro Reporter
September 25, 2013: the board of directors of the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has decided to send about 2,000 low quality transformers back to China following the order of the Special Court, according to the news in the ‘gorkhapatra’ of today.
Commission on Investigation into Abuse of Authority (CIAA) had arrested the officials of NEA en mass involved in purchasing low quality transformers causing millions if not billions of rupees worth of loss to the NEA, and then to the consumers of the electricity, as the low quality transformers frequently broke down causing power outage.
The Radio Nepal in its morning news today has said that the Chinese companies that had provided the transformers with the aluminum cables instead of the copper, had agreed on replacing the aluminum cables with the copper cables. According to the purchase order, the Chinese companies needed to provide the transformers with the copper cables but with the hand-in-glove with the NEA officials, the Chinese companies got away with providing the NEA with the transformers with the aluminum cables instead of copper cables.
