India and Nepal go ahead for Nepal’s Pukot Karnali Hydro Electric Project. NHPC signs MOU

New Delhi: The relations between Nepal and India are getting sweeter, a fresh glimpse of which can be understood from an agreement signed between Nepal and India at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been exchanged between NHPC Limited (A Govt. of India Enterprise)  and Vidhyut Utpadan Company Limited (VUCL), Nepal in August presence of Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi and Hon’ble Prime Minister of Nepal Shri Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’  at Hyderabad House, New Delhi for development of Phukot Karnali Hydro Electric Project (480MW) in Nepal.

NHPC Limited, a Schedule ‘A’ Enterprise of the Government of India with ‘MINI RATNA’ status, is ranked as a premier organization in India for the development of hydropower and Vidhyut Utpadan Company, Nepal is responsible to develop, build, own, and operate large-scale hydropower projects in a public-private partnership model in Nepal.

The MOU was exchanged by Sh. R.K. Vishnoi, Chairman & Managing Director, NHPC, and Shri Surya Prasad Rijal, Managing Director, VUCL. Signing of this MOU is a landmark step towards India-Nepal Joint Vision on Power Sector Cooperation.

 The project will use the flow from the Karnali River for power generation and the generated power will be fed into integrated power system of Nepal. The installed capacity of the project shall be 480 MW with average annual generation of about 2448 GWh. The key features of the project are a 109 m high RCC dam and an underground power house where the 06 turbines of 79 MW each shall be housed. Additionally, to utilize minimum environmental release one Surface Power House of 6 MW capacity i.e. two machines of 3 MW each is also planned. This project is conceived as a Peaking Run-of-River (PRoR) type scheme.

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