Power restored in 650 houses after two months

KASKI, August 15: Madi Rural Municipality-1 in Kaski has been connected with the central transmission line of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA).  Six hundred and fifty households at Sikles, Parche and Khilang villages had been facing power outage since June 15. 

Sikles is one of the major touristic sites in Kaski. The power was restored on Saturday through the help of national grid. The June 15 floods in the Madi River damaged the local hydro power project, bringing the power supply to a complete halt. 

Rural Municipality Chair Bed Bahadur Gurung on Saturday inaugurated the power supply from the national grid by switching on a collective electric meter. There is the collective meter box for 650 households for the time being as it will take time to fix an individual meter box, it is said.  

The disruption of power supply had hampered the service delivery of ward office, banks, cooperatives and ACAP office and so on.  It had its implications on the telecommunications as well. The flood had damaged around  a half dozen of hydropower projects including  the under-construction based on the Madi River banks.