A collection of suggestions from stakeholders in the affected areas has begun as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for the proposed project.
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An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study has been initiated for the construction of a 273.2 MW reservoir-based power project in Gulmi. The Department of Electricity Development has initiated the study process for the construction of the Lower Bodygad Reservoir-based Project on the Bodygad River between Satyawati and Rurukshetra Rural Municipality. The joint committee of ERMC, Hydro Consult Engineering Limited and Silt Consultants Pvt. Ltd., which was selected as the consultant, has completed the preliminary study and started the EIA study. The consultant company has determined the affected area, flood area, dam and power house construction area during the preliminary study and is conducting the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) work, said Gopi Prasad Shah, Senior Divisional Engineer of the Department's Project Study Division. Under which Satyawati Rural Municipality Ward No. It has been proposed to construct a 195-meter-high dam on the Badigad River on the border of Rurukshetra Rural Municipality-2 and Rurukshetra Rural Municipality-6 and construct a power house near Rudrabeni Bazaar in Rurukshetra Rural Municipality-2 to generate electricity.
The structure of the proposed project will be constructed in Rurukshetra Rural Municipality and Satyawati Rural Municipality, while wards 4, 5, 6 and 7 of Satyawati and wards 5 and 6 of Rurukshetra, 1 and 2 of Chhatrakot Rural Municipality, 7 and 8 of Chandrakot Rural Municipality, 1 and 2 of Gulmi Durbar, 14 of Resunga Municipality and 4, 5 and 6 of Musikot will be affected.
The collection of suggestions from stakeholders in the affected areas has been started under the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for the proposed project. The department has also organized a public hearing program from Baisakh 19 in various rural municipalities of Gulmi under the affected areas to collect suggestions through public hearings. He said that after collecting the suggestions, the EIA and feasibility study report will be released.
‘All the data has been collected, now the suggestions received during the public hearing will be collected, recommendations will be taken from the rural municipalities and the technical report will be updated,’ said the department’s CDE Shahle. ‘The EIA and feasibility report will be finalized by extracting data from the design to the cost estimate, financial and economic data.’ He said that only then will the rest of the project process begin.
