PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ inaugurates breakthrough of Sunkoshi-Marin diversion tunnel

Kathmandu: PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ inaugurates breakthrough of Sunkoshi-Marin diversion tunnel at Kanadhungri, Sunkoshi Rural Municipality-7 today.

After the PM pressed on the TBM switch, the TBM machine that had entered the tunnel from Kusumtar of Kamalamai Municipality-2 for digging the tunnel exited from the tunnel from the other side at Kanadhungri on the bank of the Sunkoshi river.

The tunnel stretches from Kusumtar, Kamalamai Municipality-2 to Kanadhungri of Sunkoshi-7. It is 13.3 kilometres long. The tunnel has a diameter of 5.5 metres and quality segment has been used for building the tunnel with the help of high technology. A 30 metres high and 158 metres long dam would be constructed across the Sunkoshi River at Kanadhungri and the water from the dam channeled through the tunnel to Marinkhola stream at Kusumtar. At Kusumtar, the water would be dropped through penstock pipe from a height of 66 metres to generate 31.07 megawatts electricity.