Kathmandu, March 3 -- Building a pair of Nepal-China cross-border transmission lines will again be on the agenda of a bilateral Joint Working Group meeting scheduled for later this month, two officials of the Nepal Electricity Authority said.

The meeting of the Joint Working Group comprising representatives of the NEA and the State Grid Corporation of China is scheduled to be held in the northern neighbour in the last week of March.

When Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal visited China in September last year, the two sides had signed an agreement on building the Nepal section of the proposed 220kV Jilong/Kerung-Rasuwagadhi-Chilime cross-border transmission line with Chinese grant.

"The two sides will launch the construction of the Jilon...