Electricity authority wants to develop New Butwal-Gorakhpur transmission line
Nepal Electricity Authority wants to develop the Nepal section of the 400kV New Butwal-Gorakhpur Cross Border Transmission Line which is supposed to be constructed under the compact programme of the Millennium Challenge Corporation.The state-owned power utility body recently wrote to the Millennium Challenge Account Nepal (MCA-Nepal), a special purpose vehicle formed to implement the projects under the MCC Compact, asking the latter to the 18km-long section of the project from its plan and let the NEA undertake the construction of the section.“We sent a letter about 7-10 days ago asking MCA-Nepal to allow the NEA to construct the 18-km section of the project,” said Dirghayu Kumar Shrestha, chief of the transmission directorate of the NEA. .....