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Basochhu inauguration

The Austrian minister for foreign affairs, Dr. Ursula Plassnik and the prime minister, Lyonpo Yeshey Zimba, will jointly inaugurate the lower stage of the Basochhu Hydro Project in Wangduephodrang.

The foreign minister who arrived in the country yesterday with a 12-member delegation including the director general of the Austrian Development Cooperation received an audience from His Majesty the King yesterday. Dr. Plassnik also called on the prime minister and foreign minister, Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk.

Described as a landmark of cooperation between Austria and Bhutan, the 64 MW Basochhu Hydro Project completed with assistance from the Austrian government will supply power for domestic consumption to the western dzongkhags of Thimphu, Punakha, Wangdue, Paro and Haa.

The construction of the lower stage or the phase II of the Basochhu project was started in March 2002.

The lower stage is built at a cost of Nu. 1,422 million (2001-2002 pricing) of which 90 percent of the loan is provided by Austria making it the biggest Austrian-Bhutan cooperation project. With the total production capacity of 40 megawatts, the lower stage is already supplying 32 megawatts of power to the domestic western grid since September 2004. The Basochhu power will be linked with Kurichhu supply at Gelephu to form an integrated national power transmission grid.
March 2005

Source: Kuensel, Bhutan's National Newspaper, 2005

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