Socio-economic effect of Micro Hydropower in Nepal
CONTENTS ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction 1.2 2 Statement of the Problems 1.3 1.3 Objectives of the Study 1.4 1.4 Significance of the Study 1.5 1.5 Limitatio INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Nepal located at the top of Himalayas has about six thousands rivers and rivulets hurling towards India with huge potentiality of hydropower generation. Being a small country but rich in hydropower resource Nepal boasted its first hydropower plant in a way back in 1911 considering the geographical situation small and medium size hydropower project seems more suitable in Nepal. Nepal has great potentiality of 83000mw it is estimated that 42000mw of economically feasible hydropower potentiality less than2% of this potentiality has been explored. Nepal’s electricity generation is dominated by hydropower through is the entire centurion of energy use of a country the electricity is a tiny fraction onl