Electricity was restored in the Gupsipakha settlement on Thursday with the extension of an 11 KVA line from Barpak to Laprak.
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Electricity from the national transmission line has reached Gupsipakha in Laprak, Dharche Rural Municipality-4, six years after work began.
Electricity was restored in Gupsipakha on Thursday after the extension of an 11 KVA line from Barpak to Laprak.
Chij Bahadur Gurung, head of the Gorkha Distribution Center of the Electricity Authority, said that the service was restored by lighting the electricity at the ward office on Thursday. He said that the work of installing meters in the Gupsipakha settlement will now be expedited.
80 people have applied in the first phase to connect electricity to the national transmission line in Gupsipakha. ‘80 people have applied, we have also delivered 60 meter boxes to Gupsipakha, now the work of installing meters in every household will begin,’ said Gurung.
Work had been underway to lay wires from Barpak to supply electricity to the central transmission line in Laprak for 6 years. He said that the work of extending electric poles and wires has been completed for a distance of 16 kilometers from Barpak to the old village of Laprak. ‘The work of extending wires within the settlement had been going on for a year, and electricity was restored after all the work was completed,’ he said.
There is an integrated settlement of 600 earthquake victims in Gupsipakha of Laprak. The locals had previously been using electricity generated from small hydropower plants. Even though they were using electricity from two small hydropower plants of 20 and 26 kilowatt capacity, there were problems during the winter when the water level was low.
Kisan Gurung, ward chairman of Dharche-4, said that work would be easier once the electricity from the central transmission line reached. He said that 70 households are currently living regularly in the Gupsipakha settlement of 600 households.
The Gupsipakha settlement built by the Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) was handed over to the earthquake victims on 2077 Baisakh 9. The locals have been delaying moving to the new settlement as most of the cultivable land is around the old settlement of Laprak.
Two hundred households have been living alternately in the old villages of Laprak and Gupsipakha. He said that the delay in laying the line was due to geographical complexity and snowfall.
