MUGU, July 23: People have been compelled to live in the darkness for the past two weeks due to disruption of power supply to Mugu district.
Twenty-six thousand members of 5,000 households, government offices and other organizations of Chhayanath Rara Municipality in the district have been affected due to disruption of power supply after flood damaged Gamgadh Micro Hydropower Project on July 12.
300 households forced to live under darkness
A total of 87 settlements in Gamgadhi, the district headquarters of Mugu, as well as its surrounding areas are living in darkness. The locals are hugely affected due to power disrupting for a long time.
Problems have surfaced in service delivery of government offices as well as banks and financial institutions due to this, said Assistant Manager of Rastriya Banijya Bank, Mugu, Prakash Bham.
All efforts made so far to remove the silt and mud brought by the flood to the intake of the powerhouse of the project have gone in vain, said a technician of the project, Tshering Lama.
(RSS)
