Federal lawmakers from Taplejung, Terhathum, Panchthar and Dhankuta districts have urged the government to raise the issue of Tamor Reservoir Hydropower Project during the visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Nepal.
The lawmakers have given a letter to the government asking them to raise the issue of the project with the Chinese Foreign Minister in a meeting with high priority. With the request to raise the issue of construction of this project, the parliamentarians asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. He made the request after meeting Narayan Khadka on Thursday.
Lawmakers from Taplejung Yogesh Bhattarai, Vijay Subba from Tehrathum, Vasant Nemwang from Panchthar, Rajendra Kumar Rai from Dhankuta and Minister of State for Health and Population Bhavani Prasad Khapung from Tehrathum drew Khadka’s attention.
An agreement was reached between the Investment Board and Power China Corporation when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Nepal in November 2019 to generate 763 MW of electricity from Tamor Hydropower.
“At the time of the agreement, it was said that a detailed feasibility study of the project would be completed within two years and construction would be completed within eight years. But so far the investment model has not been finalized,” he said.
One of the proposed reservoir projects in the National Energy Crisis Mitigation and Power Development Decade Concept Paper, 2072, passed by the Council of Ministers, was targeted to be completed by 2082. But in the absence of much progress, we urge the Chinese government to take action. “
