Nepal Infrastructure 
RAJASTHAN: Nepal and India have inked an agreement to increase the power import and export capacity through the Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur transmission line from 600 megawatts to 800 megawatts, authorities here said on Sunday. The agreement was reached at the Energy Secretary-level Joint Steering Committee (JSC) meeting in Mount Abu, Rajasthan, on Saturday, according to a press release issued by the Ministry of Energy on Sunday.
During the 10th meeting of Nepal India Energy Secretary-level JSC, “discussions were held on various important issues such as expanding the power of existing,under-construction and proposed transmission lines, Arun Third hydroelectric power, and related transmission line projects and international power export and import,” the press release said.
The meeting was co-chaired by Nepal’s Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Madhu Prasad Bhetwal, and Alok Kumar, Secretary at the Ministry of Electricity, India.
According to the press release, an agreement was reached to increase the capacity to import-export electricity through the 400 KV Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur transmission line by 200 MW, increasing it from 600 MW (megawatts) to 800 MW.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his then Nepalese counterpart KP Sharma Oli had launched the 140 km Muzaffarpur-Dalkebar power transmission line in 2016.
