KATHMANDU, March 28: Construction work on Upper Tamakoshi Hydropower Project, which was supposed to resume from Thursday, have been affected after as many as four groups of employees protested at the project site, saying that there were not represented in the talks team led by employee leader Sonam Dojre Sherpa.
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Ganesh Neupane, the company’s spokesperson and project manager, told Republica that workers have affected head works. “Works on power house, tail race and penstock, however, resumed from Thursday,” he added.
Nepali employees hired by Sino Hydropower, a Chinese contractor for the project’s civil works, had been staging protest since March 13, demanding that they be given up 500 units of shares in the company. The 456-MW project is expected to bring load-shedding hours down significantly by April 2017. So far, 75 percent of works on the project has been completed.
