West Seti Hydroelectric Project

India will take over the West Seti Hydroelectric Project nearly four years after China withdrew from it, ending a six-year engagement between 2012 and 2018.

  • India’s National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) has already begun preliminary engagement of the site in far-western Nepal following Indian Prime Minister’s recent visit to Lumbini.

About the Project

  • It is a proposed 750-megawatt hydropower project which is to be built on the Seti River in far-western Nepal.
  • The government has remodeled the project as West Seti and Seti River (SR-6), a joint storage project, with the capacity to generate 1,200 megawatts of electricity.
  • The project will generate electrical ....
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