Madhesh water crisis: power for irrigation to cost only Rs 3 per unit

Kathmandu: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that the electricity tariff for irrigation has been fixed at only Rs 3 per unit.

Taking to his social media account today, the Prime Minister has also said that 500 deep borings are being dug in the drought-stricken Madhesh Province.

‘The work of digging 500 deep borings has started in the Tarai. Farmers will be charged only Rs 3 per unit of electricity for irrigation,’ Prime Minister Oli has noted.

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