{"id":8141,"date":"2024-09-01T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=8141"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:34:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T03:49:00","slug":"268-households-to-be-affected-from-lower-arun-hydel-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/268-households-to-be-affected-from-lower-arun-hydel-project\/","title":{"rendered":"268 households to be affected from Lower Arun Hydel Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Khandbari (Sankhuwasabha), Sept 1: Two hundred and sixty-eight families will be directly affected by the Lower Arun Hydroelectricity Project. The 669-MW project is located in Sankhuwasabha district of Koshi Province.<\/p>\n<p>According to the draft report, &#8216;Lower Arun Hydroelectricity Resettlement and Rehabilitation&#8217;, proposed by the project developer company Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam, a hydropower generating company of India, nearly 65 hectares land belonging to the locals is to be acquired for the project.<br \/>\n&#8220;Apart from this, 70 hectares land would be forest area and six hectares public land,&#8221; said Arun Dhiman, Chief Executive Director of Lower Arun Power Development Company. The Project stated that the affected locals would be provided around Rs 1.40 billion in compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Satluj, the power developer company, has started consultations with the residents of the project- affected area after the confirmation of the operation of the Project.<\/p>\n<p>The project will not have any reservoir or dam and will be a tailrace development of the Arun-III hydro project, which will mean water re-enters the river for the Lower Arun project. For this, approximately 17.4 kilometres tunnel will be constructed at Chewabesi of Khandbari Municipality-2. Satluj is also developing the 900-MW Arun-III Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khandbari (Sankhuwasabha), Sept 1: Two hundred and sixty-eight families will be directly affected by the Lower Arun Hydroelectricity Project. The 669-MW project is located in Sankhuwasabha district of Koshi Province. According to the draft report, &#8216;Lower Arun Hydroelectricity Resettlement and Rehabilitation&#8217;, proposed by the project developer company Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam, a hydropower generating company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8141","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\/8141"}],"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=8141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8143,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions\/8143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}