Kathmandu, Feb. 11 -- Nepal and India plan to build at least five cross-border transmission lines in order to evacuate at least 16,000 megawatts of power by 2035. To lay the ground for the same, the energy secretaries of Nepal and India are meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Suresh Acharya, secretary at the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation left for New Delhi on Monday at the head of a 12-member delegation to take part in the meeting.

The meeting is expected to come up with a roadmap for constructing various cross border transmission lines to facilitate the export of 16,000 megawatts of energy to India and Bangladesh.

The secretary-level meeting will endorse and adopt the minutes and decisions made at the 12th Joint Work...