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mamfuli
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Posted on 03-31-09 9:25
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Lirpa Olof Palme Oslo, March 31:
Throw away candles. Put out your lamps. Junk your battery powered Chinese emergency lights and of course lock up your generators. From a power deficit country Nepal should soon be a power surplus country, all in a couple of months. Rejoice! The Nepali delegation currently in Europe is signing MOUs including a nuclear power deal with some select European nations. The MOUs involve generation of 10,000 mega watts of power in the next two months. "This is a miracle. I cannot believe that this is happening," said a member of the delegation which is in Europe now. The agreements essentially mean that the government of Nepal is putting all power projects, including hydro and nuclear on fast track. "The idea is to make sure that Nepal becomes power surplus from power deficient country in two months," said the official who is involved in formalising these landmark deals. Interestingly, Nepal and Norway signed an MOU on developing together hydropower sector yesterday. Gyanchandra Acharya, Foreign Secretary of Nepal, and Deputy Secretary General Atle Leikvoll, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, signed the MoU in the presence of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Norway's Minister for Environment and International Development Erik Solheim. The MoU will among other things focus on hydropower development and rural electrification for economic growth. Emphasis will be placed on environmental management. Norway will provide assistance through programme and budgetary support. According to Bijuli Kumar, a senior official of Nepal Electricity Authority, the deals come as a real boon as there were plans in the offing to increase the load shedding to 23 hours a day. "Thank god this happened. Lord Pashupathinath has finally intervened and saved Nepal from darkness," he said, adding that the load-shedding schedule has not been changed despite rainfall in few parts of the country during the last few days. Kathmandu valley has been facing 16-hour a day power-cut while the industrial areas have had 12-hour a day, the official said. According to the figures given by the NEA, this year in normal course there will be 600 MW in summer and 402 MW in winter whereas the demand will be 720 MW in summer and 900 MW in dry season. This in turn means the load shedding would have continued all throughout the year. But thanks to the new MOUs the situation will change during the next two months, making Nepal the only power surplus country in South Asia along with Bhutan. If things go as planned, Nepal will export 5,000 MW to India and China by the end of June, claimed beaming Bijuli Kumar.
Source: http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullstory.asp?filename=aFanata0scqzpma0a9a9a8a.axamal&folder=aHaoamW&Name=Home&dtSiteDate=20090401
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dd_sh
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Posted on 03-31-09 9:27
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PeaceSoul
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Posted on 03-31-09 10:05
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Its written on March 31st so I still believe. If everything goes the way it is expected we will see that day. lets prey for better Nepal.
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dhhirajojha
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Posted on 04-01-09 6:42
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bijuli kumar of nepal electricity!!!! lol
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babbal123
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Posted on 04-01-09 9:48
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Haha!! Himalayan Times celebrates the April Fool in Best Way. Few yrs ago they published the news regarding the finding of Yeti. I bought that unitl I turned to the next page.
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Posted on 04-01-09 10:08
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Look at the author of the article: Lirpa Olof Palme. Olof Palme is the long ago assassinated Swedish PM. Lirpa is April spelled backwards.
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