Keshab Poudel
TRISHULI 3 B HYDROPOWER PROJECT On High Gear
Despite facing frequent disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and restrictions, including lockdown and supply constraints due to border closure in Kerung, the 37-MW Upper Trishuli 3B Hydro Electricity Project (UT3BHEP) has made several breakthroughs recently. Thanks to the uninterrupted efforts of Mohan Gautam, Managing Director, Trishuli Jal Vidyut Company Ltd, the project has accelerated its construction pace. As the board of directors visited the site with MD Gautam, they saw the work going on in full swing. That means the project is on track towards its aim of generating electricity by September 2023
By Keshab Poudel Mar 24, 2022
This Visit Helps To Enhance Understanding The Role Of Parliamentarians: Veronique Riotton
Ms. Veronique Riotton, the President of the France-Nepal Friendship Group in the French National Assembly (the Lower House) since 2017, has recently paid a six-day visit to Nepal. She was accompanied by Mr. Nicolas Forissier and Ms.Graziella Melchior (both of them Vice Presidents). Ms. Riotton has specialized in human resource management and has been active in the field for the last 20 years. She works with associations operating in the fields of sustainable development, education, sport and social issues. In France, Ms. Riotton is a Member of Parliament from the Haute-Savoie department under the French President Emmanuel Macron’s political party, La République En Marche. On the 11th of March, Riotton agreed to an interview with Keshab Poudel and Fanny Jonckeau of New Spotlight Magazine at the French Embassy in Kathmandu to explain what took place during the meetings and the purpose of this trip. Excerpts
By Keshab Poudel Mar 24, 2022
MCC RATIFICATION Crisis Averted
With the personal initiative of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, Nepal’s parliament has finally passed the 500 million dollar MCC grant agreement amid an intense political polarization, protests and concerns of Nepal’s northern neighbor. Signed five years ago and tabled in the parliament three years ago, the MCC agreement has raised an intense dispute. Had not the agreement been ratified, Nepal would have lost its international credibility. Thanks to PM Deuba who has convinced his coalition partners and secured support from the main opposition party, Nepal has averted a major credibility crisis
By Keshab Poudel Mar 04, 2022
Government Has Bakradrishti On Madheshi Commission: Datta
At a time when there is a growing concern over the efficiency and effectiveness of constitutional commissions to address the issues under their jurisdiction, Chairperson of Madheshi Commission DR.VIJAY KUMAR DATTA has shown a way to make the commission effective and accountable to the people. Having completed his PhD in English and Masters in Maithili and English literature, Dr. Datta spoke to KESHAB POUDEL on various issues. Excerpts of the interview taken at his office in Jwagal.
By Keshab Poudel Mar 04, 2022
We Are Waiting To Go To Finance Committee: Paudel, Committee Will Invite Commissioners Soon: Dahal
At a time when there are questions over the role of Parliamentary committees to make constitutional commissions accountable to people, KRISHNA PRASAD DAHAL, Chairperson of Finance Committee and BALANANDA PAUDEL, chairperson of National Natural Resource and Fiscal Commission, spoke to spoke to Keshab Poudel. Excerpts
By Keshab Poudel Feb 21, 2022
JUDICIARY Impeachment Politics
Following the registration of an impeachment motion in the House of Representatives by members of four ruling political parties, chief justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana has been out for now with a new senior justice acting as the chief justice. With an announcement of CPN-UML to register another impeachment motion against four other senior judges including the acting chief justice, the politics of impeachment has created the most unstable and unpredictable situation in the judiciary. Some political leaders and individuals may have gained and some others demoralized in the process, Nepal’s judiciary has lost over 7 decades of recognition as an apolitical and stable institution
By Keshab Poudel Feb 21, 2022
NEPALI CONGRESS Demise Of Koirala Legacy
With the reelection of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur as the president of Nepali Congress, the era of Koirala clan dominance, and legacy of BP Koirala, has come to an end for the first time in the history since the establishment of the party. To push Koiralas out of the central stage, all opponents stood together backing Deuba. The decline of Nepali Congress and its ideological path propounded by founder BP Koirala had started during the tenure of his own brother former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala, who gave up party’s ideology for power. Newly reelected president Deuba, who was groomed under BP Koirala, is now leading the party with anti-Koirala support, although BP’s son Dr. Shashanka Koirala has won the election by securing the highest number of votes as a central committee member.
By Keshab Poudel Dec 26, 2021
UPPER TAMAKOSI HYDROPOWER PROJECT A Jewel In The Crown
Facing so many unavoidable natural crises, great earthquakes, coronavirus and other obstructions in supply, 456 MW Upper Tamakoshi Hydroelectric Project, Nepal’s largest hydropower project, has started the generation of electricity and revenue turning Nepal into a self-reliant in electricity generation. With these, the project has not only saved over Rs.9billion annually importing electricity from foreign countries but also opened a way to offer benefits to shareholders and confidence among Nepali technicians.
By Keshab Poudel Dec 11, 2021
SURPLUS ELECTRICTY Bane Or Boon
In almost two decades, Nepal’s electricity generation status has drastically changed from a electricity-starved country to a self-reliant one. At a time India is facing severe electricity crisis due to high demand, a good opportunity could be close by. Yet, as several rounds of official meetings were held, Nepal is yet to break the barrier for export. The recent meeting shows that the situation could change only through a settlement at the political level. The time is ripe for Nepal to take the initiative
By Keshab Poudel Nov 01, 2021
KUL MAN GHISING A Long March
With so many challenges, including lack of transmission lines, lack of new hydropower projects, poor distribution systems and seasonal surplus energy, Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is at a critical period. Having earned public trust and confidence in the first 4-year tenure in fixing the decade-long load shedding, Kul Man Ghising has started his second tenure, setting a long march to overcome the challenges. Visiting transmission and distribution centers, pursuading India’s power authority to purchase surplus energy and proposing the construction of new storage hydropower projects, MD Ghising has laid down his priorities
By Keshab Poudel Oct 08, 2021
CPN-UML (UNIFIED SOCIALIST) Newborn Party
Relying on same ideology of Marxist and Leninist and eulogizing Pushpa Lal, Madan Bhandari and Manmohan Adhikiari, Madhav Kumar Nepal-led newborn party has nothing different from the mother party, Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist and Leninist (CPN-UML). However, former Prime Minister Nepal, one of the founders of CPN-UML, decided to go with the new one. Although it is individually too risky in his five decades of political career to lead the new party, 69-year-old Nepal, former CPN-UML general secretary, had no option left to get rid of the political humiliation he felt from his old colleague K.P. Sharma Oli. As the party has been divided on the ego of two individuals, the unification can take place at any time as vertical splits and mergers are regular characters of Nepalese political parties. Breaking apart is common not only with communist parties but also with the rightist, centrist and regional parties. However, the division is more frequent with the communist parties and Nepal-led faction is a recent instance
By Keshab Poudel Sep 07, 2021
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