BPC received the survey license of Mugu Karnali Hydropower Project (MKHPP) in 2074, at the estimated project capacity of 160 MW. The project license boundary lies in Soru Rural Municipality of Mugu District and Adanchuli Rural Municipality of Humla District of Karnali Pradesh. The nearest road-head to this project is a gravel road from Gamgadhi, Mugu, Nepal. The project area is currently accessible via gravel road. Gamgadhi, the Mugu district headquarters, which is 316 km from Birendranagar, Surkhet, can be accessed by motorable road.

The feasibility study of the project was completed and the Environmental Impact study is on hold due to delay in approval of project capacity as per the optimization study. The topographic survey, geotechnical investigations, and geological mapping have been completed. Likewise, sediment sample collection and analysis was carried out for few years. The project capacity has been fixed at 174 MW after the feasibility study.

License boundary of the Project has overlapped with the license boundary of Mugu Karnali Storage Hydropower Project, which is owned by Vidhyut Utpadan Company Limited (VUCL). The survey license was issued to VUCL by overlapping the area with a view to carrying out feasibility study by BPC and VUCL. The application for amendment of project capacity in survey license was submitted to MOEWRI and the approval is pending due to the license overlapping issue. The Generation License has been applied. The ToR/Scoping for EIA could not be carried out due to lack of project capacity approval. The salient features given below are based on the findings of feasibility study.

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