Nawalparasi. The electricity production of the Gandak Hydropower Station located in Gutthi Suryapura, Pratappur Rural Municipality-7, West Nawalparasi, has completely stopped. The head of the hydropower station, Pitambar Bhusal, has said that the electricity production of the hydropower station has been stopped for one and a half months.
The electricity production has stopped after the water of the canal was stopped from the Gandak Barrage located in Triveni, Binayi Triveni Rural Municipality, East Nawalparasi. He said that the electricity production stopped after India shut down the canal of the hydropower station. He said that the production was stopped after the water stopped flowing into the canal since last Falgun 26.
It has been a tradition to stop the water in the canal every year for a long time. According to the Nepal-India Gandak Agreement, India handed over the center built in 1979 to Nepal on August 31, 1981. In the nearly 44-year-old Gandak Hydropower Plant, the Indian side is responsible for releasing and closing the water in the canal.
Accordingly, the Gorakhpur Irrigation Department in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, is cleaning and repairing the canal of the power plant, and electricity production has been stopped after the water in the canal has been stopped, said Chief Bhusal. The Indian side has been stopping the water in the canal twice every year, in Kartik-Mangsir and Chait-Baishakh. He said that this has caused us losses.
Chief Bhusal informed that after the water in the canal is stopped and electricity is stopped, there is a loss of seven to eight lakhs every day. The hydroelectric power station, which has a capacity of 15 megawatts, is currently generating four to four and a half megawatts of electricity. Of the three turbines in the hydroelectric power station, only two turbines are generating electricity. One turbine has broken down. He said that the electrical equipment at the Gandak Hydropower Station is based on old technology and needs to be changed and improved.
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