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The much-awaited 26-and-a-half kilometer tunnel of Melamchi drinking water has reached Sundarijal.
With a special program organized at Sundarijal in Kathmandu on Saturday, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli pressed the switch and poured water in Sundarijal.
Ministry of Drinking Water and Melamchi Drinking Water Development Committee had completed all the necessary technical works and tested water in the tunnel.
Speaking on the occasion, Prime Minister Oli said that Melamchi water would fall on the houses of Kathmandu in a few days.
Prime Minister Oli was confident that Melamchi water would also help in the long-running Bagmati cleaning campaign.
Stating that 15,000 households in Kathmandu have been tested in the first phase, Prime Minister Oli said that drinking water will reach Kathmandu after adding water from Yangri and Larke in the second phase.
Saying that arrival of water in Sundarijal was a success of new heights, Oli congratulated people of Kathmandu and wished them all the best.
Similarly, Prime Minister Oli accused his own party members of removing him from PM's post after government started doing popular work.
PM Oli said that Congress, which had won 23 seats, had gone to Budhanilkantha saying that Prime Minister had to be imprisoned.
Water was tested in the tunnel last July, but the main gate (No. 17) of the audit of Ambathan in Helambu Gaonpalika-1 burst and flooded the water, flooding an engineer and driver of the project.
After that, a team of four experts under the grant assistance of Asian Development Bank (ADB), the main donor body of the project, re-inspected the tunnel, estuary, gate and other structures.
Water was sent to a 26-and-a-half kilometer long tunnel from Melamchi River in Sindhupalchowk to Sundarijal in Kathmandu on March 25.
Sundarijal water will be treated and tested. It is said that water will be distributed to households from the second week of Baishakh. Water brought from Melamchi tunnel has reached Sundarijal 12 years after the construction started.
