Works have started around Barahakhestra to prepare the Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the Koshi multi-purpose high dam, reports said.
The ministry of water resources in cooperation with the Indian government started preparatory works of DPR of Koshi multi-purpose high dam.
The Indian government had allocated Rs 470 million for the report after Indian prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh in July last year asked his government to start work on Koshi high dam DPR with priority, according to Nepal Samacharpatra daily.
A team of four experts including former executive director of the electricity development department Arjun Kumar Singh representing Nepal and A K Jain and others of central water project on behalf of the Indian side are actively involved in the report preparation, it is learnt.
The paper quoted a source with the ministry as saying that studies for a high dam with a height of 269 meters to be constructed between Ahale VDC of Dhankuta district and Nainanaini of Udayapur district were in progress. The source also said that activities of drilling and soil testing in the area are being done.