Chilime-Trishuli 220 KV transmission line construction in final stage

The final phase of the construction of 28 km transmission line from Chilime Hub Substation at Thambuchet in Amachhodingmo Rural Municipality of Rasuwa to Trishuli 3B Hub Substation at Pahrebensi in Kispang Rural Municipality of Nuwakot is underway.

The rest of the construction work of the transmission line is completed and the construction is going on in full swing before Dashain. As part of the Chilime-Trishuli 220 KV transmission line project, the construction of 220/132/33 KV Chilime Hub and Trishuli 3B Hub substations has been completed.

The construction of 75 of the 76 towers on the transmission line has been completed. One tower connection work is in final stage . Out of 28 km of transmission line, only five km of wire is left to be laid . About 200 workers are employed to connect the tower and pull the remaining wires.

Nepal Electricity Authority's Executive Director Kulman Ghising, Deputy Executive Director of Broadcasting Directorate Dilghayukumar Shrestha and other high-level team on Saturday conducted on-site monitoring of transmission line construction work and set the deadline to be able to work before Dashain.

Project management, consultants and contractor companies to discuss not to delay the construction work, Asking to speed up the work by adding more workers, the team set a schedule to complete all the remaining work and accordingly It has been instructed to edit the work . The team also monitored the place where the connection of the last tower is being done and the wire is yet to be pulled.

The power of the 111 MW Rasuwagadhi and 42.5 MW Sanjen Hydroelectric projects built under the leadership of Chilime Hydropower, a subsidiary company of the authority, will be connected to this transmission line . Both projects have been completed and are in the stage of power generation. Because of this, the authority is under pressure to complete the construction of the transmission line as soon as possible.

Ghising, the executive director of the authority, said that the transmission line under construction in the geographically very dangerous and difficult Himalayan region has now been completed after continuous efforts. "Because this line cannot be built, the two hydropower projects are not able to start generating electricity," The construction of the line has reached its final stage by overcoming the difficult geographical conditions, let's all make the last effort to complete the rest of the work and complete the construction by any means before Dashain,' he said .

Uttargaya village-1 from Tiru to Siruchet of the same ward 1 thousand 235 m. The wire is to be stretched lengthwise. The wire will be pulled using drones in the section above Mailungkhol . All preparations for Mailung Crossing have been completed .

The tower has to be built in a geographically very dangerous and difficult mountainous area, because it is dense and there is no road, stones, sand, tower materials, water have to be carried by people or carts, floods, poor performance of contractors, problems of land use in forest areas, local obstacles , the construction of the project has been affected due to Covid-19. As the construction site is located in the mountainous and hilly areas, the weather is also having an adverse effect on the construction of the line. The

transmission line has been constructed in the terrain ranging from 680 to 2600 m above sea level . 33 towers had to be built in places where there was no access road. A separate access road has been constructed to reach the place. The project has built more than 20 kilometers of access roads for line construction.

9 towers have been built by transporting construction materials and tools from Khachhad and people. 2 towers have been built by transporting construction materials from helicopters. Under the transmission line. Chilime-Mailung section 20 km double circuit and 8 km four (multi) circuit line up to Mailung-Trishuli 3B hub has been constructed .

Under the leadership of Korean companies, a multi-circuit line is going to be made to connect the power of the 216 MW upper Trishuli-1 hydroelectric project.

Upper trident-1 by 60% of the cost of building the multi-circuit line will be borne. For the construction of the transmission line and substation, a contract was signed with the Chinese company Pinggao Group of Companies in October 2074. The contract agreement was implemented in January 2074.