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Only 5% rural Nepalese have access to electricity BY A STAFF REPORTER Kathmandu, Sept. 26: Only five per cent of the people in the rural areas of Nepal have access to electricity, but the country has tremendous potential for rural energy - such as micro-hydro, solar energy and biogas. Speaking at a consultative meeting Tuesday on the 'Decentralised Rural Energy Development Policy for Holistic Development', Dr. Ramesh Ananda Vaidya said that the government has given important place for the developmnet of rural energy in the Tenth Five-Year Plan, which starts from the next fiscal year. The meeting was attended by about 50 experts on various aspects of rural energy, and all of them pointed out that rural energy has an important role in the social and economic upliftment as well as the poverty alleviation. What is needed is the right policy, strategy and institutional mechanism based on the 'best practice' experiences in the country for the wide-scale dissemination of the rural energy to benefit the maximum number of rural people, they maintained. They also stressed on the involvement of the government, private and community for the promotion of rural energy, creation of Rural Energy Development Fund Board and identification and research for developing technologies appropriate to local resources and skill, capacity developing of local people and generation of electricity for the promotion of industrial and commercial development in rural areas. The meeting was jointly organised by the Ministry of Local Development, National Planning Commission, Water and Energy Commission Secretariat, Alternative Energy Promotion Centre and UNDP. Other Stories
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