Rs. 765m to be spent in Melamchi this year

Rs. 765m to be spent in Melamchi this year
ArthaExpress, 6-Oct-07

The Melamchi Water Development Committee (MWDC) would spend Rs. 765 million this year to accomplish Melamchi Drinking Water Supply Project (MDWSP), an official at MWDC said.

The MWDC is a government body which operates MDWSP. Talking to media persons, Hariram Koirala, the executive director of the MWDC informed that the pre-qualification has been done for the tunnel construction and the rest process was going on.

According to him, the handover of the Nepal Water Supply Corporation would take some more months as the new provision has allowed the government to take time till January and the handover of the institution from the government to semi-government body will naturally take some time.

Koirala said that the project itself has completed only 18 per cent of the total project, however, in practice, it has made landmark progress in the project´s development.

The sum will be spent in road constructions, social uplift programs, environment management programs and social and environmental monitoring.

MDWSP is Rs 33.9-billion project that plans to bring a total of 170 million liters of water per day in the capital from the Valley of Melamchi after constructing a 26.5 km tunnel. The committee has expected that the project would complete by 2011.