Pokhara Begins Supplying Electricity Through Underground Distribution System

262

Kathmandu — The Nepal Electricity Authority has started supplying electricity through an underground distribution system in the tourist city of Pokhara. Under the Pokhara-Bharatpur distribution system reinforcement project, the work of converting the electricity distribution system (wires) to underground, reinforcing, and automating it has been completed. Electricity is now being supplied to the customers in the area through this new system.

In the first phase, the distribution line has been made underground from the Kundhar 132/11 kV substation in Pokhara, extending westward through Amarsingh Chowk, Buddhachowk, and up to the Seti River Bridge section. Electricity has been supplied to around three hundred customers in that area.

In coordination with the Mugling-Pokhara road expansion project, the transmission and distribution system has been made underground, and the overhead lines and poles in the area have been removed. Initially, only the distribution system up to the Kundhar substation was planned to be made underground. However, later, to ensure that passengers arriving at Pokhara International Airport would not see an unsightly city filled with tangled wires, the system was extended up to the main entrance of the airport.

The Managing Director of the Authority, Kulman Ghising, monitored the work of making the distribution system underground and instructed that electricity supply be gradually provided in the completed areas, along with the removal of overhead structures.

Source: Kantipur