{"id":11768,"date":"2023-06-02T08:54:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T03:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11768"},"modified":"2025-03-30T05:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T23:50:48","slug":"phukot-karnali-hydro-electric-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/phukot-karnali-hydro-electric-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Phukot Karnali Hydro Electric Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Phukot Karnali Hydro Electric Project:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in Kalikot district, <strong>Karnali Province of Nepal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The project will use the flow from the <strong>Karnali River for power generation<\/strong> and the generated power will be fed into integrated power system of Nepal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key features of the project:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>installed capacity<\/strong> of the project shall be <strong>480 MW<\/strong> with average annual generation of about 2448 GWh.<\/li>\n<li>109 metre <strong>high RCC dam<\/strong> and an <strong>underground power house<\/strong> where the 06 turbines of 79 MW each shall be housed.<\/li>\n<li>To utilize minimum environmental release <strong>one Surface Power House<\/strong> of 6 MW capacity is also planned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>This project is conceived as a <strong>Peaking Run-of-River (PRoR) type scheme<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other Hydropower project betwwen India and Nepal:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Pancheshwar Multipurpose Project: on <strong>Mahakali River.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Lower Arun Hydroelectric Project : on <strong>Arun River (tributary of Koshi River)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>About National Hydro Electric Power Corporation Private Limited (NHPC)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>NHPC Limited, a Schedule \u2018A\u2019 Enterprise of the Government of India with \u2018<strong>MINI RATNA\u2019<\/strong> status, is a <strong>premier PSU in India<\/strong> for development of hydropower.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>incorporated in 1975<\/strong> under Companies Act, 1956.<\/li>\n<li>The company is mandated to plan, promote and organize an integrated and efficient development of power in all its aspects through <strong>Conventional and Non-Conventional Sources in India and abroad.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Mini Ratna?<\/h3>\n<p>The CPSEs which have made profit in the last three years continuously, pre-tax profit is Rs.30 crores or more in at least one of the three years and have a positive net worth are eligible to be considered for grant of Miniratna-I status.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1929103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India&#8217;s NHPC inks MoU with Nepal for development of Phukot Karnali Hydro-Electric Project.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phukot Karnali Hydro Electric Project will use the flow from the Karnali River for power generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}