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Kathmandu. Nepal and India have agreed on the modalities for the construction of an inter-country transmission line. Nepal and India have agreed on the modalities for the construction of a transmission line required to export 15,000 megawatts of electricity from Nepal to India and Bangladesh by 2035 at a secretary-level meeting in New Delhi, India on Tuesday.
Suresh Acharya, Secretary of the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation of Nepal, and Pankaj Agrawal, Secretary of the Ministry of Power of India, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at a secretary-level meeting between Nepal and India. The process of constructing the transmission line will now move forward with the secretary-level talks and agreement between the two countries.
Earlier, Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Deepak Khadka had held discussions with Indian government ministers for the construction of an inter-country transmission line during his visit to India from November 18 to 21. In the same meeting, Minister Khadka had said that India had already signed a power purchase agreement of 10,000 megawatts in 10 years and that the construction of the transmission line for that electricity supply should be accelerated.
Along with the aforementioned meeting, the 12th meeting of the Joint Secretary-level Energy Task Force of Nepal and India was held on January 21 to move forward with the construction of the transmission line. In that meeting, it was agreed that an inter-country transmission line would be constructed and that electricity import and export would be made easier. The same agreement has been approved by the secretary-level meeting between the two countries.
The joint secretary-level meeting discussed the existing electricity transmission lines between Nepal and India, under-construction and proposed cross-border transmission lines, various Indian-invested hydropower projects and related transmission line projects, and cross-border electricity import and export.
The secretary-level meeting agreed to complete the construction of two 400 kV transmission lines from Nepal’s Inaruwa to Purnia in India and from Nepal’s Dodhara to Bareilly in India by 2030. The transmission line will be a joint company established on both sides with shares owned by Nepal Electricity Authority and India’s Power Grid Corporation Limited.
After the agreement between the two countries, Nepal will own 51 percent of the shares in the joint company on the Nepal side and India will own 51 percent of the shares in the company on the Indian side. The remaining 49 percent of the shares in both companies will be owned by the other country.
Similarly, it has been agreed that the DPR of the Chameliya-Jaulljivi 220 kV double circuit transmission line will be completed by 2025. Similarly, it has been agreed to increase the capacity of the Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur transmission line from 800 MW to 1,000 MW. Similarly, it has been agreed that the construction of the 400 kV Nijgadh-Motihari and Kohalpur-Lucknow transmission lines will be completed by 2035. The agreement has been approved by a secretary-level meeting between the two countries.
Earlier, Nepal and India had a long-term electricity trade agreement for the export of 10,000 megawatts over 10 years, while 40 megawatts of electricity have already been exported to Bangladesh. Along with Secretary Acharya, the meeting was attended by Joint Secretary of the Ministry, Sandeep Kumar Dev, Director General of the Department of Electricity Development, Navin Raj Singh, Executive Director of the Nepal Electricity Authority, Kulman Ghising, Deputy Executive Director of the Authority, Dirghayu Kumar Shrestha, and others.
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