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Kaligandaki floods: Temporary towers of power lines erected

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Myagdi. The Dana-Khurkot transmission line of the 220 KV Kaligandaki corridor damaged by floods and erosion has been repaired.

Temporary towers have been constructed using Canada’s technology to facilitate emergency power supply during disasters. As many as 176 MW of electricity generated from seven hydropower projects in Myagdi and Mustang could not be connected to the national grid since September 27 when three towers of the transmission line were damaged in Annapurna Rural Municipality-1 and 6 of Myagdi district.

Roshan Khadka, chief of Nepal Electricity Authority’s Gandaki Province Grid Branch, Pokhara, said that the power supply was charged at 10:3 TAG_OPEN_div_16 0 pm on Saturday after the work of installing a temporary tower in place of the three towers collapsed by the floods was completed. “We have been able to connect the electricity to the national grid by repairing the damage caused by the floods within 20 days by mobilizing the technical human resources of the Nepal Electricity Authority and the hydropower projects in the Kaliganda basin,” he said. ”

Sanjay Lohani, assistant director of the NEA, said that the power supply has been restored by constructing a temporary tower of Canada technology in place of the three damaged towers. A temporary tower has been constructed at Aula of Annapurna Rural Municipality-1, Doba, which is across from the Bhirkate section of the Beni-Jomsom road.TAG_OPEN_div_14

More than TAG_OPEN_div_12 20 engineers, the same number of technicians and more than 50 workers from the Hydropower Projects and Divisions in the Kaligandaki Basin have been mobilized in the last 15 days. The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has said that it will also start the process of rebuilding the damaged towers by constructing temporary towers and restoring the damaged towers.

The production of 5 MW Ghalemdikhola, 42 MW Mristrikhola, 38 MW Nilgiri-1, 71 MW Nilgiri-2, 6 MW Relekhola and 14 MW Thapakhola Hydropower Project in Tukuche of Mustang have been halted after the damage to the tower of the transmission line has stopped supplying electricity to the central grid from the Dana-Khurkot transmission line.TAG_OPEN_div_10

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