The project stopped generating electricity since February 6 owing to some technical faults in a generator installed in the project. Time to fix the technical faults will take more time as a Chinese team that had installed the machine is yet to arrive to mend it.
"A two-member Chinese team has already arrived here. But, another eight-member team is arriving to solve it," said Narendra Prajapati, general manager of Bhotekoshi Power Company.
There are two generators installed in the project. Both of the generators have been stopped for fixing the faulty one.
The run-of-the-river project with 36-MW installed capacity had earlier generated up to 45 MW of electricity during the monsoons.
Lately the project had been producing 14 MW of electricity before it was stopped.
Officials at the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) have said the situation of power cut turned bad to worse following the closure of this project.
Currently, the NEA has been enforcing about 16 hours power cut a day citing receding water levels in reservoirs and in the rivers feeding hydropower projects, among other reasons.
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