KATHMANDU: UCPN Maoist and Nepali Congress has suggested the Khilaraj Regmi government to seek clarification from India over the recent floods in Mahakali River.
Maoist Chairman Puspa Kamal Dahal and NC Vice President Ram Chandra Paudel claimed that Darchula suffered huge loss of human and physical resources due to Indian negligence in controlling the water at the Dhauliganga Hydropower Project.
In addition to it, the duo has suggested that the government should also seek compensation from India for the damages done by the floods in Nepal.
During his meeting with Regmi, Prachanda had urged Regmi to declare relief packages for flood victims (amounting to Rs 1 lakh to each affected family) and had also urged to provide a helicopter to him for inspecting the area.

Paudel had also made similar request during a separate meeting with Regmi during which he was accompanied by his party’s leaders.

Indian government owned 280 MW DGHP is said to have opened its doors to clear all the silts from its 70 meter high damn along the Indo-Nepal border.

The dam water mixes into Mahakali River after traveling around 5 kilometers down the river near Indo-Nepal border.

Excessive release of water from the damn and natural floods in the Mahakali river had swept the headquarters of Darchula, a district bordering India’s Dharchula in North-West of Nepal.

KATHMANDU: Indian hydropower construction company GMR has more troubles ahead as Nepal’s hardliner Maoist- CPN Maoist- has decided to form a security force to evict the company from Nepal.

GMR has been involved in the construction of Upper Karnali Hydropower Project situated in the hills of mid-Western Nepal and has been facing obstruction from the party cadres for a long time now. However, so far the friction was kept in the soft side. But this decision has made public the party’s official stance on Indian companies.

CPN Maoist’s recent Bheri-Karnali State Committee took the decision, officially endorsing the decision to banish GMR from the project, Nepal’s national daily newspaper Nagarik reported in its Thursday edition.

At the conclusion of the meeting, Secretary of the State Committee Bharat Bam was quoted as stating that the “decision was taken as part of the party’s ideology and work plan to remove foreign interventions from projects of national importance”.

” If GMR starts to work under present conditions, than we have decided to even launch underground protest and activities against the project,” Bam said, adding “we wont accept any projects that are against national interest and sovereignty.”

On the occasion, Bam informed that the party’s volunteer bureau was presently observing the activities of GMR and other foreign companies related to sensitive and nationally important projects.

Responding to question on the necessity to form an security force, Bam said that the such a security force is going to be formed for dealing with locals who are in support of the Upper Karnali Hydropower Project and GMR company.

Five months earlier, some locals had clashed with CPN Maoist cadres and evicted them from the project site where GMR was holding an public assessment program.