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Minister for Water Supply directs reconstruction of damaged Melamchi project before mid-April



SINDHUPALCHOWK: Minister for Water Supply Uma Kant Chaudhary has directed the construction company and employees of the Melamchi drinking water project to restore and complete the flood-damaged project within mid-April.

The Minister gave such direction during a field inspection of the national pride project on Friday.

The government has reached an agreement with the Chinese Sino Hydro to reconstruct the project damaged by flooding in June 2021.

Earlier, the government had tested the release of water from the project to the residents of the Kathmandu Valley.

The Minister also pledged to distribute water from the project to the residents of the Kathmandu Valley within this year.

He would visit and take stock of work progress of the damaged project once a week, he said.

The Minister was accompanied to the project site by a team of technicians and the Ministry Secretary Pramila Devi Shakya Brajacharya, Director General of the Department of Water Supply and Sewerage Management, Tiresh Prasad Khatri, Executive Director of the Melamchi Water Supply Development Board, Basu Dev Paudyal and Chairperson of Helambu Rural Municipality Nima Gyaljen Sherpa.

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