{"id":437553,"date":"2026-10-09T21:18:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=437553"},"modified":"2026-10-09T21:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:33:32","slug":"investment-board-nepal-approves-investments-in-two-semi-reservoir-hydropower-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/10\/09\/437553.html","title":{"rendered":"Investment Board Nepal Approves Investments in Two Semi-Reservoir Hydropower Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/2f2c5803-5f2c-408c-b0c9-723054aa9267-1024x478-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-437554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/2f2c5803-5f2c-408c-b0c9-723054aa9267-1024x478-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/2f2c5803-5f2c-408c-b0c9-723054aa9267-1024x478-1-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/2f2c5803-5f2c-408c-b0c9-723054aa9267-1024x478-1-768x359.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kathmandu: The 68th meeting of the Investment Board Nepal has decided to approve investments in two semi-reservoir hydropower projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting, held today under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Balendra Shah, approved an investment of 10.75 billion Rupees for the 58.9-megawatt Nar Khola Semi-Reservoir Hydropower Project and 10.42 billion Rupees for the 46.72-megawatt Sani Bheri-3 Semi-Reservoir Hydropower Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, the meeting decided to facilitate the Arun-3 Hydropower Project (900 MW) to begin commercial production by February 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding the Upper Karnali Hydropower Project (900 MW), it also decided to provide the necessary facilitation to ensure that construction proceeds immediately in accordance with the provisions of the Project Development Agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting further decided to delegate the necessary authority to the Chief Executive Officer of the Investment Board Nepal Office to facilitate the implementation of approved projects, improve services provided to investors, and ensure effective performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise, the meeting directed the office to make the necessary legal arrangements to advance proposals not solicited by the board through competitive Swiss Challenge procedures, as required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: The 68th meeting of the Investment Board Nepal has decided to approve investments in two semi-reservoir hydropower projects. The meeting, held today under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Balendra Shah, approved an investment of 10.75 billion Rupees for the 58.9-megawatt Nar Khola Semi-Reservoir Hydropower Project and 10.42 billion Rupees for the 46.72-megawatt Sani Bheri-3 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":437554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,5,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-437553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-en-news","category-top-stories","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437555,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437553\/revisions\/437555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437553"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=437553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}