The government had already decided to run the two non-functioning thermal plants in Duhabi’s 39 MW multifuel plant and Hetauda’s 14 MW thermal plant.
Construction of the transmission for importing power will be completed within four months.
Nepalese Minister for Environment, Science and Technology Ganesh Sah said that construction of the transmission lines required for importing the energy would be completed within four months.
Nepalese Minister for Law, Justice and Constituent Assembly Dev Prasad Gurung said that the productive sectors would not be required to pay the “demand charge” until full supply of energy from the national grid, and they would pay only for the energy that the industries consume.
On earlier occassion, a delegation of industrialists and businessmen had met the Nepalese Prime Minister and demanded that the demand charge be withdrawn.
