Chinese Government provides a feasibility study for the dam and embankments construction project in Jhapa

In 2018, the governments of Nepal and China signed a deal on the construction of dam and embankments in all the rivers in Jhapa through Chinese investment. In June 2018, the MoU for conducting a feasibility study for all the nine rivers in Jhapa was signed between the Nepal Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, and China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) during the China visit of Prime Minister KP Oli. The two sides had agreed to carry out the feasibility study for embankment construction in nine rivers of Jhapa, including Mawa, Ratuwa, Kisne, Kankai, Biring and Ninda, to tame flood and erosion. In July 2018, a joint team from China and Nepal started a feasibility study for embankment construction in nine rivers of Jhapa district. The team comprise of seven CCCC representatives and two senior divisional engineers from the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation. The team was conducting the feasibility study to construct embankments that will together span the length of 35 km. it would take at least six months to prepare the detailed project report (DPR).

Number of official sources

0

Number of total sources

2