Wind & Solar Hybrid Energy Project in Jumla district; Villagers are Happy

Introduction

Hybrid Dangiwada Wind and Solar Energy Project of capacity 26KW, an isolated Power system project, is constructed by Alternating Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC). Which is located in Mid-western Nepal; Tatopani-5 DandiWada, Jumla district. AEPC constructed this type of project very first time in the district in order to emphasis on rural Electrification Program. Jumla district lies in the Himalayan region and very far from the capital city Kathmandu. There is not the National Transmission Grid due to geographical difficulty. Most of the places are rural areas and underdeveloped. So, AEPC conduct an electrification Program for giving services to backward people.

     

                                            Fig: 26KW Hybrid Wind and Solar Project

Project Description

Name: Hybrid DangiWada Wind and Solar Energy Project

Location: Tatopani-5, Jumla Nepal

Capacity: 26KW

                15Kw from Wind turbine

                11Kw form Solar Power

Benefited household’s: 150

Project Chief: Ram Bahadur Rawal

Main sponsor: Alternating Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC)

Electricity cost: Rs.150 per Month

General Layout

Project cost

Total cost: 25 million

AEPC contribution: 13.7 million

District development committee: 1.9 million

Village development committee: 1.05 million

Rest of cost by Public Participation

Social Impacts on Villagers after Electrification

In this village, it is the first time Electrification Program become boon for them during current energy crisis. People uses the special type of wood, named as SALLA for lighting. The fumes come from the wood is very harmful and adverse effects on health. Some of the villagers were suffered from heart disease, lung cancer, eye disorder etc.  There was fear of fire in home. The children were unable to study well. There is various Problems associated with lighting before this project. But, now locals became very happy after the project. Their lifestyle is changes now. They use electricity for lighting purpose. Children’s and their parents becomes happy. Villagers said that, “We are with another bright part of life, we are very happy and congratulated AEPC for helping poor people.”  It can be seen that after completion and operation of project, there is positive impact on society. 26Kw is the very small project but, becomes very huge for those people who do not use electricity before. Villagers must come to headquarter to charging mobile phone before. But the problems is solved out, there is no need to come to headquarter; which is very far from village by walk, for mobile charge.

Conclusion and recommendation

Hybrid renewable energy system is operated in rural area, becomes appropriate for the Electrification Program where there is lack of national grid. Villagers get benefited, changes their life style. Peoples becomes very happy and that project brings the life of people more easy and comfortable. It is necessary to increase capacity of the system. Peoples are unable to use electricity for cooking purpose. They are demanded to increase capacity up to 36 kw. So, I am highly recommended that to increase capacity of the Power system in order to get proper and sufficient use of electricity.

Why leadership in Nepal is relevant in today’s Scenario

In the past few months, there has been a to much discussion in the national media. All about an acute need for an alternative ‘political’ force in Nepal. I am encouraged by this intellectual discourse which surely will help build 21st century relevant leaders for Nepal. Thank you everyone who have consistently kept this important agenda into the limelight.

2 years ago, Nepal was going through a tumultuous period. A syndicate of incompetent political parties who had little will or vision were taking turns ruling Nepal. Bitter political wrangling topped as acute corruption was rapidly dismantling any good governance we had left. All of a sudden, Nepal’s constitution building body was abruptly dissolved, leaving behind a power vacuum with a deeply divided society.

At such crucial times, many Nepalese from different professions and backgrounds came together and started searching for an answer to this “What Next?” We publicly brainstormed for 22 continuous weeks taking feedbacks from more than a 1,000 concerned Nepalese from all walks of life. Students, house-wives, CEOs, teachers, social workers, businesswomen, everyone had one consistent advice for us. “Only a 21st century relevant leadership carrying political force would end this ever-growing crisis and help bring about lasting positive transformation for Nepal.

It is identified todays leadership values/traits a political force should have to lead us to a prosperous Nepal within a generation.

1.     Results oriented pragmatic: A political force has to be simply results-oriented, with an evolving, pragmatic philosophy to help meet that. Its foundation would rest on at least these eight 21st century basic values; responsibility, accountability, prosperity, empowerment, freedom, diversity, servant government and pragmatism.

2.     Follow the middle path (balance): This progressive force follows a middle path whereby on one hand, it inspires citizens to be responsible while simultaneously builds systems to hold leaders accountable. It plays a delicate balancing act by enabling citizens to become the agents of prosperity while also building a servant government system that guarantees public welfare for those in need.

3.     Moderate views: This moderate force has a leadership that prescribes balanced, pragmatic solutions to keep this country united and progressive.

4.     Systematized: In Nepal, the crux of the problem lies not in a person but in their system (culture). Hence this political force will rely upon an effective system and not on individual charismatic leaders.  Its structure is made of 3 parallel ‘check and balance’ systems; the legislature, executive and judiciary. Just like an effective 21st century democratic government. The legislature is made of politicians who want to get in to government to rule (like any traditional political party). The executive has managers and experts who professionally manage the organization efficiently and transparently. The judiciary has those whose primary goal is to keep up discipline, protect the values (culture) and the constitution of the organization at all costs. These 3 wings independently and inter dependently work with each other to check and balance each other. This ‘check and balance’ system makes this political force run accountably, transparently and effectively.

5.     Self-reliant members: The primary reason Nepal’s current political forces are corrupt and thus inept is because their members (cadres) are often reliant upon others for their daily livelihood. This problem has to be tackled at its roots. That is why any 21st century relevant political force has to make sure its members become self-reliant by being entrepreneurial or self-employed, or simply employed. This way, the party members do not have to compromise on their ideals and values because of their family’s livelihood concerns.

6.     Meritocratic leadership building system: It consistently trains and produces leaders who not only know how to get elected but also how to consistently deliver once they are in the government. The leaders produced will be skilled at creating win-win environments. Their contributions are calculated on the basis of their merits and judged using scientific performance measurement systems.

7.     Transparent: It will be a model of transparency for others. From fund-collection to expenses to decisions, it will inject transparency into every level of its system.

8.     Regular leadership change (regular power fluidity): In the end, absolute power and position corrupts absolutely. That is why an alternate political force has to build a system that regularly and consistently filters its leadership.

9.     Youth centric: Youths will make the bulk of this political force. And thus it will be led by youthful leadership who will enthusiastically spread its core values to all corners.

In conclusion, the end goal of any political force who wants to stay relevant in 21st century Nepal should be to build a peaceful, prosperous Nepal within our life-time.

RasuwaGadi Hydroelectric Project Visit

Rasuwagadhi Hydropower Company Limited (RGHPCL) is a subsidiary of Chilime Hydropower Company Limited (CHPCL) and was incorporated in August 2011 as a public limited company. It has planned to develop a new project - Rasuwagadhi Hydroelectric Project (RGHEP) having capacity of 111MW in Rasuwa district of Central Development Region.

The cost of the project is estimated to be NRs. 13,684.20 million excluding financial cost. A 50:50 debt-equity structure will be employed for financing this project.

Its awesome visit and enjoyable moment inside natural beauty. It is located in the Nepal and china broader, Rasuwa District.  

Education Campaign In to Public School

The public Schools which are govern by the government seems to be degrading in their qualities now a days. The SLC (10th class) exam result of recent year shows the declining pass percentage than Private boarding school.

The poor performance of the public or government school during this year’s SLC result has compelled all stakeholders to try and do some real soul looking on what specifically has gone wrong with our education system. The results of last year’s SLC examination the entree to pedagogy, showed a dismal performance by our public colleges. Only 27.97 per cent of the scholars who had attended the examinations got through, which implies quite seventy two per cent of the scholars unsuccessful, whereas quite eighty six per cent of the scholars from the non-public schools passed the examination.

I am also representing from public school but now in engineering profession. I think, education campaign is needed to improve quality of education and I involved in more than 10 public school in education campaign. We visited public school of Baglung, Parbat, Myagdi, Kaski, Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Lalitpur, Sindhupalchowk, Nuwakot and Rasuwa.

In the education campaign our team mobilizes in to schools and co-operate to them and the report is send to the district education office. We take classes especially in 10 class and observed the situation. We communicate with the students, their parents, teachers in order to take best action for the improvement of quality education. We faced some challenges to lunch this program. It is difficult for teachers to convey the actual scenario. They feel weakness in their teaching methodology. They but emphasis in theory in most of the case. Practical education is suppress as a result, poor in quality. We connect them in claim way and gave suggestion for the better result. The problem is the school environment. It hampers the learning and teaching process. Somewhere there is not enough desk benches, not enough stationary materials. There is the problem of email internet. Some students reached school up to 2 hours walk by foot.

With considering this problems, we find out the best idea to improve in the quality. The teaching methodology becomes major problem. Beside this, school environment and parents care is other things. Parents shows negligence when children in public school. But same parents shows great interest when same child admit in boarding school. This is one of the major issues of most of the public school in Nepal.

There are some issues related to public school. Even though some students do better in exams and get better result. Which is highly depend on their hard work and excessive effort. Some students becomes successful rather than representing from public school. Our education campaign is successful. We submitted the result of our research to the district education office. After our campaign, the students, parents and teachers becomes happy and they said that they will go through improvement for the better result.      

Sample of cover letter

Sujan Acharya

Address: Balaju-16 Kathmandu

Mobile:

Current:

Environment and resource management consultant (ERMC)

P.O. Box 12419, Puja Pratisthan Marga

New Baneshowor, Kathmandu, Nepal

Phone 01-4483064

I am forwarding my resume for your kind consideration in regards to Entry Level of Electrical Engineering position, as I learning about the vacancy at the official site of ERMC. I believe that I would be able to perform well with my dynamic attitude and team building skills, and I have strong academic qualification as required by your institution.   

I am a fresh graduate from Tribhuvan University, Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus, completing different course projects and demonstrated presentation during college enrollment.

According to my educational background this post perfectly matched with it. I will be waiting for your reply. Kindly consider my resume and cover letter for this job.

Your Sincerely,

Sujan Acharya

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Bagmati Clean-Up Campaign

The main objectives of this high spirited ‘Bagmati Cleanup Campaign’ is to keep Bagmati River and its tributaries clean by preventing the direct discharge of solid and liquid wastes to the river and conserve the river system within the Kathmandu. The government officials of the ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport Management started to work for the Bagmati Clean program. Many others non-governmental institution are participated in the Campaign. Within 14 years it is hope to be clean Bagmati.  

We all group members are gathered and participate to clean Bagmati by collecting plastic and non-disposable thing which is one the side of Bagmati River, some are taking out plastic from river. The weekly clean-up drive has improved the condition of Bagmati and its surroundings. “This support is just overwhelming “Said Chief Secretary Leela Mani Paudyal, a key leader of the campaign. Its public realization about their responsibility towards their environment that made this campaign successful” he added.

JEEVAN VIGYAN KENDRA; One of the social organization constantly participated in this huge campaign in to clean the heart of Kathmandu city.