Lalitpur, March 15:

The people of various Lalitpur VDCs are yet to benefit from the biogas power plants though they are receiving finances to install these plants.

People seem reluctant to install biogas plants due to administrative hassles, though they are getting repayable loans for two years at nominal interest rates.

The Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) has selected Chandanpur, Bagh Bhairav, and Saatkanya VDCs to install 200 plants in two years. The plants will be availed through various milk cooperatives under the Lalitpur District Milk Production Cooperatives Association Limited (DMPCAL).

“We have finished the first phase of the programme that involved, among others, the selection of villages by looking into audit reports, plans for two years,” said Dharma Dulal, loan assistant at Credit Unit of AEPC. However, Krishna Sapkota, president, Lalitpur DMPCAL, said: “Official procedures do not guarantee success. We are disinclined to go through paper works once again.”