Floods and landslides have caused great damage to the hydropower project under construction on the border of Marsyangdi Rural Municipality 6 and 7.
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The flood in the Ngadi River in the northern part of Lamjung and the surrounding landslides have damaged all the structures of the under construction 40.27 MW Super Nyadi hydropower project from the dam to the power house. The flood has washed away the dam area, pipelines, power houses, access roads, raw materials as well as raw materials preparation machinery, vehicles and freight vehicles of the project under construction.
About 80 percent of the construction work of this project, which is being constructed in Ngadikhola, which flows through the border of Marsyangdi Rural Municipality 6 and 7, was completed. It is predicted that the construction work will be delayed by 9 months due to floods and landslides, if the work is progressed to the end of March.
Last year's flood and landslide also damaged the structure of the project, but this year's flood and landslide caused more damage, said Project Manager Bimal Dhakal. According to him, the flood and landslide from 1 pm to 7 pm on Sunday caused more than 600 million damage to the project according to the initial report. According to him, 3 excavators have been damaged towards the headworks. 3,500 sacks of cement have been spilled. He said that the diesel generator and 3 mixer machines were completely damaged. Landslides have occurred in more than 15 places of the access road from Thulibensi, Masyangdi Rural Municipality 6, about 25 kilometers from the project site. He said that electricity supply and internet services have been completely stopped.
Similarly, around 200 meters of the installed penstock pipes have been damaged. Damage has been done to 3 store buildings towards Power House. The timber machine working inside the powerhouse costing around 12 million rupees has been completely damaged.
Project Manager Dhakal said that 7,000 bags of cement and 150 tons of rods were poured into the powerhouse. In this area, 3 compressor machines and 2 bolero vehicles, tipper and excavator 1/1 have been swept away. He also said that the spare parts in the store and the workshop built for the project were completely damaged.
Similarly, the batching plant, a concrete making place near the power house, has been completely damaged. Around 130 pipes of 50 mm thickness and 1.5 meters length, placed to be connected inside the powerhouse, have been laid. Detailed details are yet to come. According to the preliminary survey, more than 600 million rupees have been damaged," he said. According to the latest information given by the
project, the commercial production date (RCOD) of electricity was till mid-March 2082. Project Manager Dhakal said that the current flood and landslides are projected to be delayed for another 9 months. The floods and landslides in Pohor also extended the construction time of the project. This time the flood and landslide seemed to be extended for 9 more months," he said. "The disaster that occurred in the second half of the construction of the project created a lot of problems for us." The civil structure of the project is being constructed by RK Hydro Pvt Ltd under G&G Infra Pvt Ltd. India's Global Hydro Pvt Ltd is working towards electromechanical. Nepal's Precision Hydro Pvt Ltd is doing hydro mechanical work. The work of the transmission line is being done by AS Construction Pvt Ltd. The dam of the
project is being constructed above Marsyangdi Rural Municipality 6, Dahre. The water brought from the 6 thousand 885 meter tunnel will be pumped into the underground power house to be built near the village to generate electricity. The power house will have 2 vertical Pelton turbines. The grasshead of the project is 733 meters. He said that work is going on in 8 phases of the tunnel.
In the Super Nyadi hydropower project, NMB Bank is leading the loan investment of 5 billion 25 crore rupees by 4 banks. The promoter's equity (capital) is 1 billion 75 crore rupees. 75 percent of the bank and 25 percent of the promoter have been projected to build the project at a cost of 7 billion rupees. Lamjung residents have a 'promoter' share of around 20 crore rupees in the project.
The generated electricity will be connected to Tarikuna substation of Nepal Electricity Authority under construction 11 km away. Super Nyadi itself will construct a 5.1 meter long 132 KV single circuit transmission line up to Nyadi Hydropower Project. The 6 km single circuit constructed earlier by the Nyadi project has also been 'sharing' by the Super Nyadi project. According to the project, the power purchase agreement (PPA) has been made at the rate of Rs 4 80 paisa per unit for 6 months during rainy season and 8 rupees 40 paisa per unit during 6 months of winter.
