India to take up dam projects with Prachanda

  • 10/09/2008

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

Gargi Parsai Saptakosi, Sunkosi will help to tame Kosi Prachanda will arrive in India on Sunday India will request Nepal for logistics and security NEW DELHI: With a sense of urgency, India will take up with Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) the issue of construction of the Saptakosi and Sunkosi dam projects in upstream Nepal to tame the Kosi in Bihar. He is arriving here on Sunday. The multipurpose Saptakosi dam will substantially reduce the flooding in Kosi, which caused unprecedented havoc in Bihar this year. Water Resources Secretary Umesh Narayan Panjiar told The?Hindu here on Tuesday that the Indian government would request Nepal to help with logistics and security for preparation of Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) so that dam construction could be expedited. In 2004, a Joint Project Office was set up at Viratnagar in Nepal for facilitating the preparation of the DPRs.