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Nepal has extended the day for survey licence for a hydropower task being developed by NHPC and approved to enactment for a nonstop statement for different by SJVN with an purpose to facilitate Indian powerfulness companies to execute projects successful the Himalayan nation.
The decisions astir the reservoir-based West Seti hydropower task being developed by National Hydroelectric Power Corporation, India (NHPC) and Arun-III hydropower task being developed by Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN), and to facilitate Indian companies for hydropower projects were taken astatine the 67th gathering of the Nepal Investment Board (NIB) successful Kathmandu.
The meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Sushila Karki, connected Wednesday (November 19, 2025) decided to widen the day of the survey licence for the reservoir-based West Seti hydropower project, a connection from the NIB said.
The 800 MV task was earlier with China’s Three Gorges Company and had failed to marque advancement connected time.
The gathering besides approved to taxable a connection to the Nepal authorities for support of the draught for a nonstop statement for the Arun III hydropower task being developed by India’s Satlaj Jala Vidyut Nigam (SJVN).
The gathering besides authorised NIB CEO Sushil Gyevali to contented a licence for the Lower Arun Hydropower Project (669 MW) aft approving the draught of the powerfulness procreation license, the connection said.
The gathering besides approved concern for the Betan Karnali Hydropower Project, a 439 MW semi-reservoir-based project, the NIB said.
The estimated outgo of the task is astir NRs 9,340 crores (₹5,800 crores astir arsenic of November 2025). Formation of a squad for signing a task improvement statement regarding the aforesaid was besides approved, it said.
Three projects, West Seti, Arun III, and Upper Karnali, are being developed by Indian companies. In January 2024, agreements were reached betwixt India and Nepal connected assorted issues specified arsenic exporting 10,000 MWs of energy wrong the adjacent 10 years.
There are aggregate well-endowed rivers originating successful the higher reaches of the Himalayas – the 4 main being Mahakali, Karnali, Sapta Gandaki, and Sapta Kosi – flowing done antithetic valleys and past cutting crossed plains earlier entering India to conscionable River Ganga. India has helped Nepal make aggregate hydropower projects connected these high-volume rivers.
