Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has said the Nepal government is making preparations to sell the Nepali electricity to Bangladesh and China after India.
Addressing the nationa on the completion of one year of his term as the Prime Minister for the third term today, Prime Minister Dahal said, that the sale of electricity has already started in India and soon will be sold in Bangladesh as well.
“The Nepal government has already started selling Nepali electricity in India, he said, “There is a trilateral agreement between Nepal, India and Bangladesh to export up to 40 megawatts of electricity to Bangladesh.”
He said that Nepal is a country with great potential even though voices of disappointment have been heard in the country, of late. He presented the recent electrification as an example.
He said, “Until my tenure as the Prime Minister for the second term, 18 hours of load shedding was considered natural, today the country has reached the point of exporting electricity. It has reached the stage of earning 15.27 billion by selling electricity in one year.”
He further said that as the Chilime Kerung transmission line is being built, the electricity will be exported to China later.
He claimed that he did not even imagine that this situation would happen in five years. The country will be prosperous when it will be able to sell the electricity worth Rs 500 billion.
