Posted by: CopiCat January 24, 2008
India will take away all water related projects in Nepal
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I don't understand the intent of Harka Bahadur, but we should really try to make Nepal another Bhutan. If India and China have enough capital to invest, we should not really go far away to find investors in order to harness the hydropower for the development of Nepal. Burnt tires in the streets can give no more power. No matter how loudly and strongly we chant slogans in the streets, we have problem of food, clothes and shelter. This is the hard reality. If we really want to come out of the poverty loop, we have to do something beyond our traditional thougthts.

India has financed Chunkha Hydropower (336MW) & Tala Hydropwer (~1020 MW) in Bhutan. Similarly, Mangdechhu Hydropower ~ 360 MW (feasibility study by Norway), Panasangchhu Hydrower ~ 900 MW (feasibility study by Japan) are on the way.  Per capita income of Bhutan is around ~$ 875 (even higher than India) via-a-vis ~$300  of Nepal. There is no one below poverty line (compared to 42%) as per world bank report .

Let's not talk about politics, disgusting monarchist, as we had before.

 

 

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