The government is planning to import 300 megawatt electricity from India within the next one and half years. A joint standing committee meeting of energy secretaries of Nepal and India here on Friday agreed on the import of 80 MW electricity through the Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur cross-border transmission line within the next three weeks. Besides, the meeting agreed on the import of more power via the same transmission line, with the decision of initiating processes necessary for operating the line in a full-fledged capacity by December 2017. Despite the potential of importing 1,000 MW electricity from the Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur transmission line, there is no high power substation in Dhalkebar to transform power as per the demand. So there is a need to increase the capacity of substation for the import of additional power, according to the meeting.
