Until the 1968s, a large population of Saudi Arabia lived a nomadic life by grazing camels in the desert. That was 65 years ago. At the same time, Nepal was not only self-sufficient in agriculture but also an exporting country of rice and rice. Korea currently sends 5,000 to 10,000 Nepalis annually to South Korea for employment to pay for nepal’s qualities.

Nepal had already started generating electricity without knowing how much oil it had in Saudi Arabia. Nepal has a capacity to generate 83,000 MW of electricity. According to a study conducted by Hariman Shrestha, the first hydropower project in Nepal came into operation in 1966 and in 1968. Until then, saudi arabia’s oil was used by america and the us protected saudi arabia.

However, after the 1970s, rapid economic growth began in Asia and Europe. The demand for oil increased everywhere. Saudi Arabia hit a boundary on this occasion. It began to boost its economy by starting to export large quantities of oil.

Today, saudi arabia’s per capita income has reached $ 35,000. Nepal’s per capita income is barely $1,500. In terms of population, the population of Nepal and Saudi Arabia is the same. Nepal’s population is 30 million, Saudi Arabia’s is 35 million.

A large part of it is also nepali workers. Saudi Arabia earns around Rs 2.5 trillion annually by selling oil. Nepal’s total revenue income is limited to about Rs 12-13 trillion. According to the general calculation, Nepal is currently earning Rs 30-35 billion even after exporting 1,000 MW electricity for six months.

This amount can be at least Rs 60 to 70 billion (due to the ups and downs in the price of electricity) when exported throughout the year. If Nepal had been able to generate 83,000 MW of electricity and consume or export it within the country, the state would have earned rs 5 trillion annually today. Although we were not as developed as Saudi Arabia, Bhutan would have been better than Bangladesh.

Given the rapid economic growth of Saudi Arabia today, it is not convincing that the Saudis once lived by grazing camels in the desert. The standard of living of Saudi citizens has changed. Nepal’s situation has changed, but we are still moving ahead of the way Saudis jumped using natural resources.

Considering the 83,000 MW generation capacity, we have not been able to utilize even 10 percent of it. However, recent studies have shown that Nepal can generate up to 200,000 MW of electricity. Our production has not even reached 4,000 MW. Even now, domestic demand cannot be met without importing electricity from India in winter. This trend will continue for the next five years.

Can such a question be asked now? What was the difference between Saudi Arabia importing oil from India and Nepal importing electricity?

This question has been asked only in the context of the use of natural resources. Saudi Arabia is using its resources without having to buy sesame seeds from other countries. The country’s economic progress has been made through this.

Like Saudi Arabia, Nepal had immense hydropower generation capacity, but Nepal could not utilize it. In such a situation, nepal’s hydropower generation capacity will hardly reach 20,000 MW in our lifetime. Because 3600 MW has been generated. Power purchase agreement (PPA) has been signed for additional 8,000 MW projects.

Who benefits from destroying the energy sector, which has created a situation for export of electricity worth $TAG_OPEN_strong_83}}billion and has the biggest potential to reduce the trade deficit?

Since then, there has been no additional PPA for the last five years. Although the Ministry of Energy has put forward the roadmap for the generation of 28,500 MW of electricity, the Ministry of Finance has not kept it in its document. The electricity authority, the only power buyer, is behaving as if India has broken the rope so that it will not buy electricity. The PPA called Take and Pay (Liu or Tir) is being made a contingency (supplementary) PPA to take and pay (pay only after taking it).

The new project was made to be included in the budget speech, saying that PPA should not be done in take-or-pay under any circumstances. Now banks and financial institutions do not invest a single rupee in take and pay PPA. The government did not know this and the provision of take and pay was not included in the budget.

Is it a coincidence that all agencies are attacked at the same time?

The Department of Power Development, which has been opened for the promotion of the private sector, is also becoming lenient towards the private sector. The office-bearers of the Electricity Regulatory Commission established to regulate the power producers are also determined to move forward according to the principles of the Mau Party due to political appointments.

Supreme Court, Parliamentary Committee, Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority, Securities Board, CDSC and other bodies have also laid a trap step by step. The Ministry of Forest is referred to by the power producers as ‘Forest Government’. Even if the Government of Nepal facilitated, the Ministry of Forest could not take the work, while the Government of Nepal has also presented itself as strictly as the Forest Government.

As an ordinary citizen, no matter what the system comes in the country, whoever forms the government, whatever profession/ business, wherever the mountains/ hills/ terai live, everyone needs universal and reliable electricity. Thousands of multinational companies would have been established in the country if the production industry had been given the cheapest electricity and security of South Asia by making electricity production cheaper. Our focus was not on making electricity cheaper.

Instead, thinking of ‘Robert’ who gave milk to the hydropower promoter (the word Robert was chosen because the cow does not get milk without grass), everyone from small to big, from village to city, started filling goji with the best possible tricks. All the blame was put on the promoter’s head.

I want to ask some questions to the elite section of the society in terms of knowing the energy entrepreneur a little more closely.

– How are you treating the promoters like black marketing by selling goods worth Rs 10 for Rs 20 without seeing how hydropower has been built in what geography?

– Why not accept the contribution of hydropower in providing essential infrastructure such as public transport, irrigation, drinking water and ambulances in villages by digging roads on monkey-fighting cliffs?

– Why should a person who takes risk by keeping his home and farm in all the banks, risking his life, not take advantage of the risk?

– Does a person born into a middle-class family take risks and work or connect to the house even if he takes the risk?

– Can you go ahead to invest in hydro to know if it’s really sad to build hydropower or if there’s only profit as you think?

and finally the idea that a person born in a normal family should die in a normal state is studied in which mechanism or in what argument?

Having said that, it is certainly not to say that all the promoters engaged in hydropower are above the water. I will put the wrongdoers in the dock, but it is only said that the entire energy sector will be destroyed.

If the ongoing attack is not stopped, then it cannot be said that more than 300 companies that are producing electricity and starting production in the near future will not collapse. If an area with an investment of Rs 1.5 trillion is destroyed, no one seems to care how many places it will cause landslides. It seems that people from all strata of the society are also entangled in the issue of riding a car by keeping all the fields in the bank.

2-4 people may be changing the car to show it to others. But many promoters are required to have 2-4 vehicles while making the project. If you don’t believe it, let’s build hydropower. And let’s see if you go to Darchula by tempo or take a car with a slightly stronger engine. Let’s also look at how your blood pressure increases when the interest meter rotates like a car when the project has been stalled for years without being able to cut a tree while the house is mortgaged in the bank.

You must have had this question somewhere in your mind – if there is so much stress, why did you do this?

The answer is simple. Whoever knows the work, he has to do the same work. People who have grown hair while measuring the water of the river, playing with the mountains, cannot import chocolate and sell it. Some jobs are risky, we can’t change their path when people’s passion is risky.

Having said that, I am firm that wrong activities should be stopped and wrongdoers should be punished. The promoters themselves also want the government to take action against the wrongdoers and not to attack this sector all around. But one level and section is trying to attack all the manufacturers engaged in this sector in a planned manner with the design to put them in jail if they can, if not, to flee abroad. Perhaps both the power generation and consumption sectors are going to be completed together.

I am firm that wrongdoers should be punished. The promoters themselves also want the government to take action against the wrongdoers and not to attack this sector all around.

Who will benefit if it starts earning foreign exchange by exporting electricity since last year (imports are more than exports in the past), has created a situation of exporting electricity worth billions annually in the coming year and destroys the area with the biggest potential to reduce the trade deficit?

At a time when the manufacturing industry is booming, adding billions of rupees in the name of dedicated and trunk lines to the penalty of arrears has reached half a trillion, this problem is not going to be solved. Some industries may have consumed it, and they will have to pay for it. However, many industries have also been fined for falling below that line. Hydropower promoters have also suffered similarly. The whole area is being punished for the mistake committed by one person.

Looking at all these developments, the easiest business to do in Nepal is to import goods and do business. If a syndicate can be set up in imports, it will be fruitful in a single year.

If this is the case, then how long will all the hydropower generation works in Nepal be stopped? How long will new industries not be opened and industries will be closed? There should never be a day in Nepal that the electricity used in our house is also imported and distributed by any trader. At least electricity should be used in the country.