Kathmandu, November 22: The Pancheshwor Development Authority is holding its joint meeting of the project’s governing body in New Delhi in order to forward the much-hyped but badly delayed Pancheshwor Hydropower Project.
The governing body’s meeting is being held on in New Delhi on November 29. A 13-member Nepali delegation led by Secretary at Ministry of Energy, Hydropower and Irrigation Dinesh Kumar Ghimire will attend the meeting. Earlier, the Cabinet meeting had given authority to Secretary Ghimire to lead the delegation.
According to Ghimire, the Authority will pass its budget and discuss various issues including the detailed project report. The meeting of the experts’ committee under the Authority was held last January. Agreement is yet to be forged on all issues relating to the DPR. Although the DPR of the project was said to be completed in six months of the Mahakali Treaty, it has not been finalized in 24 years since then. RSS
