The 1,200-megawatt Budhigandaki Hydropower Project is once again facing uncertainty over how it will be built, as shifting government policies threaten to complicate a financing and implementation framework that had already been approved. At its October 16 meeting, the Cabinet gave in-principle approval to draft the Budhigandaki Development Authority Bill, reopening the debate over the project’s development model.
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The 1,200-megawatt Budhigandaki Hydropower Project is once again facing uncertainty over how it will be built, as shifting government policies threaten to complicate a financing and implementation framework that had already been approved. At its October 16 meeting, the Cabinet gave in-principle approval to draft the Budhigandaki Development Authority Bill, reopening the debate over the project’s development model.
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