Kathmandu. The ‘modality’ of the construction of an inter-country transmission line between Nepal, India and Bangladesh is to be decided. The modalities are to be decided through a secretary-level meeting between Nepal and India in New Delhi, India, for the construction of the transmission line required to export 15,000 megawatts of electricity from Nepal to India and Bangladesh by 2035.
A team including Suresh Acharya, Secretary of the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, has left for New Delhi today to participate in the secretary-level meeting between Nepal and India to be held on Tuesday. The process of construction of the transmission line will be taken forward after the secretary-level talks and agreement between the two countries.
In the 12th meeting of the Nepal and India Energy Joint Secretary-level Working Group on Magh 9, an agreement was reached to further facilitate the construction of inter-country transmission lines and the import and export of electricity. The agreement will be implemented after the approval of the secretary-level meeting between the two countries, said Ministry Spokesperson Sandeep Kumar Dev.
The 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.
It has been agreed to complete the construction of two 400 kV transmission lines from Inaruwa in Nepal to Purnia in India and from Dododhara in Nepal 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 said that the capacity of the Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur transmission line will be increased 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 will be ratified by a secretary-level meeting between the two countries.
Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Deepak Khadka said that such transmission line construction agreements would be of great help in achieving the government’s target of exporting 15,000 megawatts of electricity abroad by 2035. He said that the structure of the international transmission line should be built to export more electricity in the coming days.
Earlier, Nepal and India had a long-term electricity trade agreement for the export of 10,000 megawatts over 10 years, and 40 megawatts of electricity have already been exported to Bangladesh.
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