Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Equipment arrived despite early monsoon

On 26th May 2009, Mr. Keshab Prasad Ghimire who has been acting as the local correspondent, updating us with the progress of construction in the village and communicating with us regarding any equipment or material required for the construction called us to inform that all the equipment had arrived in the village safely. Despite the early monsoon rain on Monday that had caused landslide on the way and a delay of three hours, Mr. Shyam Lama and Mr. Dhanbahadur Shangtang, the villagers who had come to Kathmandu on the truck successfully transported the equipment to the village.

Monsoon season in Nepal is expected to act as one of the biggest drawbacks of our summer project. The Meteorological Forecasting Division (MFD) has said that Monsoon will hit the country early this year, possibly with first shower on 5th June, which is 5 days earlier than the normal date (Kantipur Report.) Monsoon contributes more than 80% of the annual rain (Kantipur Report) followed by torrential rain that benefits 76% of the population which depends on agriculture for living to irrigate land also causes problems of flood and landslide in several parts of the country. Early Monsoon might occupy the villagers around this time of the year in cultivation slowing down the construction work for our project. The monsoon rain can make it more difficult to work outdoors and proceed with the next step of the project i.e. to complete the construction of the Power House and to connect the pipes to make Penstock.

Let's hope that despite the possible hindrance, with the help of the villagers who are thrilled to be finally getting electricity in their village, support from Dr. Damber Bahadur Nepali who has been generously supervising every step of the progress and active participation of Mr. Surendra Mathema and his team from Power Tech Nepal and Mr. Keshab Prasad Ghimire, we will definitely succeed in our goal of generating hydroelectricity for the 30 houses.

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