Kathmandu, October 25

The Development Committee of the Parliament has directed the government to begin supplying water from the Melamchi Drinking Water Project within a year ‘at any cost’.

After a committee meeting yesterday, the committee issued a directive to the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, and the Melamchi Drinking Water Project.

The directive reads: “Although the project was first launched with the target of supplying water to Kathmandu Valley by 2007, its deadline has already been extended twice.

The project must meet the current deadline and be operational within a year. The committee directs both the government and the project to begin supply of Melamchi water within a year at any cost.”

The project must meet the current deadline and be operational within a year. The committee directs both the government and the project to begin supply of Melamchi water within a year at any cost.”

The project started in 2001 with the target of supplying water by 2007. However, construction work was halted until the government gave the contract to Italian firm CMC Cooperativa Muratori e Cementisti di Ravenna in 2013. The government had extended

The government had extended deadline for completion of the project to December, 2013 first and then again to November, 2016 for the second time.

The government had extended deadline for completion of the project to December, 2013 first and then again to November, 2016 for the second time.

However, the project is unlikely to meet the second date either. The committee raised serious concerns regarding the project’s inability to meet its deadline, and demanded speedy completion of the project. The committee then directed the project to begin water supply by mid-October of 2017.

The committee then directed the project to begin water supply by mid-October of 2017.

The committee has ordered the government to prepare a detailed project report for the next phase of the project to supply additional water from Yangri and Larke and place the next phase as a national priority project.

The committee has also directed the government to form an integrated body to monitor and coordinate the underground construction.

According to the Melamchi Water Supply Development Board, more than 73 per cent of tunnel boring work has been completed so far.

Although the project aims to dig a kilometre’s stretch of tunnel on an average a month, it has only been able to dig 800 metres due to various hurdles. The project now needs to complete construction of the remaining 7.2 km tunnel by July next year.

The Melamchi project was envisioned in the late 1990s and the first agreement to construct the project was signed in 2003. The project took off only in 2010, seven years after the agreement was signed.

Works remained halted until the government awarded the contract to Italian firm CMC Cooperativa Muratori e Cementisti di Ravenna in July, 2013.

The project was expected to be completed by February 19, 2016, but was delayed after construction work halted for 10 months following earthquakes last year. Before awarding the contract to CMC Cooperativa Muratori e Cementisti di Ravenna, the government had scrapped the contract offered to China Railway 15 Bureau Group in September 2012 due to the latter’s unsatisfactory performance.

Before awarding the contract to CMC Cooperativa Muratori e Cementisti di Ravenna, the government had scrapped the contract offered to China Railway 15 Bureau Group in September 2012 due to the latter’s unsatisfactory performance.

Before awarding the contract to CMC Cooperativa Muratori e Cementisti di Ravenna, the government had scrapped the contract offered to China Railway 15 Bureau Group in September 2012 due to the latter’s unsatisfactory performance.

Melamchi Water Supply Project, which began in December 21, 2000 is a project funded by the Asian Development Bank. The project covers parts of Indrawati and Bagmati watershed and includes areas of five districts.

Key water diversion facilities are located within Sindhupalchowk and Kavrepalanchowk districts, whereas water treatment plant, water distribution and the ancillary structures are located within Kathmandu Valley. Melamchi Project aims to supply 510,000,000

Melamchi Project aims to supply 510,000,000 litres of drinking water to Kathmandu Valley per day.