The country's largest 456 megawatt Upper Tamakoshi Hydroelectric Power Station, which was damaged by a landslide on October 12, has been operational since Tuesday night. The center, which started preparing to start production from the power plant by keeping the deadline of January 10, started production from Tuesday by filling the reservoir.

The left one of the 2 sand settling ponds of the power plant has been put into operation after repairs. Purnagopal & nbsp;Ranjith, manager of Tamakeshi power station, said that immediately after the repair of the pond on the left was completed, electricity generation was started by sending water directly from the dam site.

The landslide completely damaged the power plant operation house. According to which, the sand settling pond and No. 46 tower of the transmission line were also damaged. "Since the construction of the tower has been completed, we have filled the dam site with water and sent it to the power plant as the repair of the damaged one has been completed," he said Chief Mohan Prasad Gautam said. 

"We have immediately filled the reservoir and opened 2 of the 4 gates and sent water equal to the flow of the river directly to the power plant and started producing electricity," he said. According to him, it is estimated that 125 to 30 megawatts will be produced from Tamakoshi in January. He said that since the water in the river will decrease, the production will also decrease.

The chief executive officer of the hydroelectric power station, Gautam, said that it will take the first week of January to repair the Tamakoshi hydroelectric power station and bring it into full operation. "It will take another three weeks to completely repair the sand pond," he said He said that electricity can be sent up to 130 MW. 

'The shutdown of Tamakoshi's production has affected the demand for electricity across the country,' he said, 'We are working day and night, preparations are being made to produce electricity to meet peak hour demand.' He claims to produce.

"Though there is no electricity production according to demand for now, 130 megawatts of electricity will be supplied from Tamakoshi to the national transmission line from this week," he said.

The landslide damaged the control room on the lower right side of the upper Tamakoshi power station dam, the sand freezing pond and the canal (culvert) that carries water from the dam to the freezing pond. He said that all the damaged structures are currently being repaired and bids are being prepared for new structures to be built. 

The power operation control room, cooling pond and culvert were heavily damaged due to the landslide that fell from above. The design discharge (flow of water) of Tamakoshi Hydropower Station is 66 cusec. Last October, the incessant rains in the Tamakoshi River reached 461 cusecs at the dam.