GS II
Context:
• 👉India will be taking over an ambitious hydropower project in Nepal West Seti nearly four years after China withdrew from it, ending a six-year engagement between 2012 and 2018.
•👉 India’s National Hydro Power Corporation has already begun preliminary engagement of the site in far-western Nepal following Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to LumbiniWest Seti project:
•👉 The proposed 750-megawatt West Seti Hydropower Project is to be built on the Seti river in
far-western Nepal.
👉• West Seti and Seti river, a joint project, has the capacity to generate 1200 MW of electricity.
India-Nepal power relations:
•👉 Mahakali treaty was signed in1995 to produce 6480 MW.
• Upper Karnali project
• 900 MW Arun Three projects in eastern Nepal’s SankhuwaSabha
