Mandu Hydropower, which was damaged by the flood in the Bagmati River due to the incessant rains on October 11th and 12th, has started generating electricity again. After completing the reconstruction work, Mandu Hydropower has resumed electricity production from Tuesday. In the first phase, only 50 percent of the capacity has been produced. The power generation capacity of Mandu Hydropower is 22 MW.

"We are producing 11 megawatts of electricity in the first phase after completing the reconstruction work," said Manoj Singh, senior technician of Mandu Hydropower. A team consisting of Nepali technicians and workers did the technical and physical works of hydropower. More than 60 Nepali technicians and laborers were employed in the reconstruction work.

Bagmati river flood and landslide of Mandu Hydropower, which was producing electricity by keeping a production house in Bhimfedi Rural Municipality-8, Bagmati Dobhan in Makwanpur, damaged the headworks, power house, penstock pipe and electricity tower. Sundar Shrestha, chief operating officer, said that the Bagmati flood caused more than 1 billion damage to Hydropower, which has been producing 22 megawatts of electricity since 2075. "The flood in Bagmati caused unimaginable damage to the hydropower, we have started the electricity production again after repairing it," he said.

The road from Cisneri market to the project site was damaged by the flood. Mandu Hydro opened the road leading to the project site after maintaining the road and started the reconstruction work from the first week of last November.