Koshi Barrage – Reporters Nepal https://nepalireporter.com Impart Educate Propel Sun, 14 Jul 2019 04:26:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.6 https://nepalireporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-RN_Logo-32x32.png Koshi Barrage – Reporters Nepal https://nepalireporter.com 32 32 All sluice gates of Koshi barrage opened https://nepalireporter.com/2019/07/256602 https://nepalireporter.com/2019/07/256602#respond Sun, 14 Jul 2019 04:26:19 +0000 https://nepalireporter.com/?p=256602 Nepal floodAll the 56 sluice gates of the barrage at Saptakoshi river have been opened. All the gates were opened today after the water current and level rose to alarming situation following incessant rain, the barrage police post office Chief Iswar Dahal said.]]> Nepal flood

KATHMANDU, July 14: All the 56 sluice gates of the barrage at Saptakoshi river have been opened.

All the gates were opened today after the water current and level rose to alarming situation following incessant rain, the barrage police post office Chief Iswar Dahal said.

The barrage with a capacity for 800,000 cusec water is now letting pass water at 290,00 cusec. It was 318,650 cusec on Saturday.

Technicians have been mobilized round-the-clock to work on the sluice gates and also to keep the barrage and the embankment safe.

It may be noted that an embankment on the Nepali side of the river had been damaged a decade ago, causing large damage to life and property in both Nepal and India. RSS

]]> https://nepalireporter.com/2019/07/256602/feed 0 Indian govt instructs authority to open all doors of all dams in Nepal https://nepalireporter.com/2017/08/39291 https://nepalireporter.com/2017/08/39291#respond Mon, 14 Aug 2017 07:00:31 +0000 http://nepalireporter.com/?p=39291 Nepal floodIndian Minister for External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj, has said that the government of India has already instructed the concerned authority to open all doors of the dams including Koshi Barrage over Saptakoshi River in Nepal to avert unpleasant incidents in the wake of flood and inundation. ]]> Nepal flood

KATHMANDU, Aug 13: Indian Minister for External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj, has said that the government of India has already instructed the concerned authority to open all doors of the dams including Koshi Barrage over Saptakoshi River in Nepal to avert unpleasant incidents in the wake of flood and inundation. 

In a telephone talk held between Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Krisha Bahadur Mahara and Indian Minister Swaraj on Sunday, Minister Swaraj apprised so to DPM Mahara, according to DPM Mahara’s Press Coordinator Hari Lamichhane.

During the talk, Indian Minister Swaraj also expressed grief over the loss of lives and properties incurred by floods in Nepal and she pledged utmost support to Nepal in this hard time, Press Coordinator Lamichhane. RSS

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