KATHMANDU: The government has forwarded process for purchasing electricity generated from two sugar mills.

The sugar mills generate power by utilising 'bagasse' (cane pulp), which would be the optimum utilisation of industrial wastages.

An agreement to this effect was signed between the government and representatives from Indu Shankar Sugar Mill and Everest Sugar Mill amid a programme organised at Department of Electricity Development today.

Director General of the Department Nabin Raj Singh signed the agreement from the government side which is on a contract basis.

The government would buy three megawatts of electricity from each sugar mill.

The government had unveiled Energy Emergency Action Plan in 2016, according to which it would do resource mapping and link the identified resources of energy with the national transmission lines.

The Plan has been aimed at tiding over the power crisis in the country during the dry season.

Singh also shared the two sugar mills from where the government would purchase electricity were being operated in Gaushala in Mahottari and Hariban in Sarlahi.

Everest Sugar Mill will provide electricity to the Aurahi Sub Station some 12 kilo metres away from the mill while Indu Shankar will provide to Haripur Sub Station stationed some 15 kilo metres from the mill.