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Myagdi. The 48.5 MW Upper Rahughat Hydropower Project under construction on the Rahughat River flowing through Raghuganga Rural Municipality of the district has reached its final stage. The project, promoted by Tundi Power, has completed the construction of the dam, power house, tunnel, and transmission line, and has reached its final stage of installing equipment at the power house.
The project’s resident engineer Narottam Karki informed that work is underway with the goal of generating electricity by July 2025. “So far, 95 percent of the civil, 80 percent of the hydromechanical and 70 percent of the electromechanical have been completed,” he said. “Except for the ‘control room’ and the water mixing (tailrace) in the power house, the construction of the physical structure has been completed.” Tudin Power’s hydromechanical engineer Ghanshyam Bhattarai said that the work of installing twine and generator equipment inside the power house is going on at a rapid pace.
The tunnel of this project, which has a dam in Chimkhola in Raghuganga-7 and a power house at the foot of Dagnam in Raghuganga-4, is 4,900 meters long. “Only about 100 meters of the work of installing a 680-meter-long penstock pipe from the outlet to the power house is left. The construction of a switchyard to connect the electricity generated from the power plant to the transmission line has begun, he said.
Bhattrai informed that preparations are underway to start testing of another 37.5 MW capacity Mangale Rahughat Hydropower Project built by Tundi Power in Rahughat within a month. According to him, all the work on the Bandima dam in Raghuganga-8, the power plant in Chimkhola in Raghuganga-7 and the 5,328 meter long tunnel have been completed.
The Upper Rahughat dam has been constructed to allow the water to flow out of the Mangale Rahughat power plant and to drain the water of the Bagarkhola in Chimkhola. Tudin Power Engineer Bhattarai mentioned that the estimated cost of both projects is Rs 13 billion.
He said that the construction of a 14-kilometer transmission line with a capacity of 200 kV from the Rahughat substation in Raghuganga-3 Ambang to Chimkhola, which is being built to connect the electricity generated from Upper Rahughat and Mangal Rahughat to the central transmission line, has reached the final stage.
Since the Nepal Electricity Authority has delayed the construction of the substation in Ambang, preparations are being made to connect the electricity to the national transmission line through alternative means. Samyukta Urja Pvt. Ltd. is constructing the 21.3 MW Thulokhola Hydropower Project and the 22.5 MW Upper Thulokhola Hydropower Project on the Thulokhola tributary of the Rahughat River.
Raghuganga Hydro Limited, a subsidiary of the Nepal Electricity Authority, has stated that it is constructing the 40 MW Rahughat Hydropower Project on the Thulokhola River.
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