Kathmandu, April 18 -- The Uttar Ganga Power Company, a subsidiary of Nepal Electricity Authority, has invited expression of interest for consulting services to prepare detailed engineering design and bidding documents for the 828 megawatt Uttar Ganga Storage Hydroelectric Project in Baglung.
The Rs130 billion project has been revived after seven years. It had been bogged down by conflict of interest by political leaders.
The project had failed to progress because of heated disputes on inter-basin diversion of water from the reservoir-type hydropower plant to be constructed by collecting water from the Uttar Ganga stream of Dhorpatan and other surrounding streams.
A reliable source close to the project said that conflict of interests bet...