Kathmandu, December 14
The Asian Development Bank that is funding the ambitious Melamchi Water Supply Project has commissioned a team to monitor and supervise the project’s progress.
The team includes four people who are experts of hydro-mechanical engineering, tunnel and water distribution system. An official says the team has reached the project site in Sindhupalchok on Saturday.
The team will be in Nepal for around one week, it has been learned.
After stakeholders and media raised questions over the quality of construction works done for the project, the ADB sent a team for onsite monitoring, according to sources. “It is good that independent experts supervise so as to avoid technical errors,” an official says.
It has been over two decades since the project began. Its deadline has been extended almost every year since then. Now, as per the new plan, the project will deliver water to Kathmandu by April 15, 2021.
