{"id":54758,"date":"2026-09-10T08:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=54758"},"modified":"2026-09-10T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:25:11","slug":"upper-myagdi-1-hydropower-project-achieves-tunnel-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/upper-myagdi-1-hydropower-project-achieves-tunnel-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Myagdi-1 hydropower project achieves tunnel breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Myagdi, Sept 10: The Upper Myagdi-1 Hydropower Project with a capacity of 35.5 MW has achieved a tunnel &#8216;breakthrough&#8217; (excavated) from the audit towards the dam.<\/p>\n<p>The project, promoted by Myagdi Hydropower Limited, has connected the tunnel from the audit site in Dhaulagiri Rural Municipality-4, Chhahari to the under-construction powerhouse in Malika Rural Municipality-7, Bharwang, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Project Chief Jyoti Kumar KC informed that a 2506.39-meter tunnel connecting the audit site to the dam has been broken through.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Out of the total 3,283.32 meters of the tunnel from the audit in Chhahari to the dam in Dhaulagiri Rural Municipality-4, 1,973 meters has been completed so far,&#8221; he shared.<br \/>\nKC further said, &#8220;Work is underway with the goal of completing the remaining tunnel within a few months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chief KC mentioned that overall progress has reached 56 percent and the project is expected to be completed within the next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myagdi, Sept 10: The Upper Myagdi-1 Hydropower Project with a capacity of 35.5 MW has achieved a tunnel &#8216;breakthrough&#8217; (excavated) from the audit towards the dam. The project, promoted by Myagdi Hydropower Limited, has connected the tunnel from the audit site in Dhaulagiri Rural Municipality-4, Chhahari to the under-construction powerhouse in Malika Rural Municipality-7, Bharwang, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54761,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54758\/revisions\/54761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}