Posted by: Dcops' guy February 26, 2013
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1) There is no doubt that combination of foreign direct investment (FDI), mobilization of national capita, investment from local people around the project site and investment from citizens could be the viable and effective option while going after these megaprojects.
2) I believe that compensation provided to affected people should be fair enough as they are going to lose their land for ever.
3) Other day I was watching a documentary on Hoover dam. US government has built that dam as a multipurpose project: utilizing same mighty Colorado's water for hydropower generation, irrigration to Utah and California and recreation.
No doubt Upper Karnali project could be constructed in the similar fashion. From various studies have shown that constructing UKHP as a storage project will not only generate very cheap 4,000 megawatt of energy but also irigrate thousands of hectars cultivable land of Mid/Far western region of Nepal.
4) Nepal might be financially weak at this moment but it is not necessary that it will remain same forever. Nepal is not letting GMR to build this project to supply power to our national grid but very cheap energy to India instead. We might not be able to construct it right now but lets think the scenario after 10, 15 years. Nepali people should clearly understand that if we let GMR construct this project as run of river type 900 megawatt it is not going to ease current blackout problem. We are only getting some 100 megawatt as free electricity after construction. Its like "Hattiko mukhma jira." For the sake of some 100 megawatt and some million rupees we are going to lose best bounty to Nepalese people by mother nature.
5) Karnali is also good source of of water to deprived northern state of India. They are very clear that if we construct Upper Karnali as storage type project and use its water to irigrate our land of mid/far western region, it will diminish the amount of water entering their land. So letting GMR to construct Upper Karnali as run of river type, hydropower generation oriented will preserve their interest of unconditional smooth flow of water all year round.
Jay Nepal
2) I believe that compensation provided to affected people should be fair enough as they are going to lose their land for ever.
3) Other day I was watching a documentary on Hoover dam. US government has built that dam as a multipurpose project: utilizing same mighty Colorado's water for hydropower generation, irrigration to Utah and California and recreation.
No doubt Upper Karnali project could be constructed in the similar fashion. From various studies have shown that constructing UKHP as a storage project will not only generate very cheap 4,000 megawatt of energy but also irigrate thousands of hectars cultivable land of Mid/Far western region of Nepal.
4) Nepal might be financially weak at this moment but it is not necessary that it will remain same forever. Nepal is not letting GMR to build this project to supply power to our national grid but very cheap energy to India instead. We might not be able to construct it right now but lets think the scenario after 10, 15 years. Nepali people should clearly understand that if we let GMR construct this project as run of river type 900 megawatt it is not going to ease current blackout problem. We are only getting some 100 megawatt as free electricity after construction. Its like "Hattiko mukhma jira." For the sake of some 100 megawatt and some million rupees we are going to lose best bounty to Nepalese people by mother nature.
5) Karnali is also good source of of water to deprived northern state of India. They are very clear that if we construct Upper Karnali as storage type project and use its water to irigrate our land of mid/far western region, it will diminish the amount of water entering their land. So letting GMR to construct Upper Karnali as run of river type, hydropower generation oriented will preserve their interest of unconditional smooth flow of water all year round.
Jay Nepal