Civil Works

• Headworks excavation works completed.
• Steel lining at right side dam completed. Left side dam PIT test completed and rectification grouting, shear key concreting works completed and raft concreting works ongoing.
• Concrete works at the settling basin, desander transition, head pond to HTR inlet connection part, and counterfort retaining wall ongoing.
• Headrace tunnel between Face 1 and Face 2 breakthrough completed, invert cleaning, final support and concrete works ongoing. Headrace tunnel at Face 3 and Face 4 diverted due to weak geological conditions requiring additional 95 m tunnel length.
• Diversion done from both Face 3 and Face 4, and excavation works ongoing in both faces.
• Concrete works at surge shaft and Anchor Block 1 ongoing.
• Concrete infill work at both Vertical shaft 1 and 2 completed.
• Concrete works at LPT ongoing. Powerhouse cavern finishing works ongoing.
• Powerhouse MAT portal busduct support concrete works completed.
• Powerhouse switchyard control building concrete works completed and finishing works ongoing.
• Tailrace tunnel invert and shear wall concreting works completed. Switchyard foundation and protection works ongoing

Hydromechanical Works

● Fabrication of first-stage and second-stage embedded parts of all gates completed.

● Fabrication and erection work of Bifurcations and Bellmouth completed. Pressure test is successfully completed.

● Fabrication of gate lift of radial sluice gate, scour sluice gate, floating gate, settling basin inlet/outlet/flushing gates, turbine outlet gate, tailrace outlet stoplog and settling basin flushing stoplog ongoing.

● Steel plates for penstock pipe delivered to the site and fabrication works completed

● Erection of penstock pipe at upper-pressure tunnel completed. ● Erection of bend 3 at anchor block 1 is ongoing.

● Erection of penstock pipe at Vertical Shaft 1 completed.

● Erection of penstock pipe at Intermediate-pressure tunnel ongoing, 160m completed (46m remaining).

● Erection of penstock pipe at Vertical Shaft 2 completed.

● Erection of pipes at LPT ongoing.

● Erection of steel lining at right side dam completed.

 Electromechanical Works

● Turbine housing/bifurcation installation for all three units along with second stage concreting completed.

● Installation of turbine nozzles of all three units completed. ● Installation of all three MIVs completed.

● Installation of all three units of generators completed.

● Bus duct installation ongoing.

● 11kV switchgear panels, LVAC panels, DC system panels, cable trays manufactured and reached at site. Installation ongoing.

● Switchyard equipment like Lightning Arrestors, Circuit Breakers, Current TransformerPotential Transformers, Disconnecting Switches, etc. reached site. Installation of the steel structures and switchyard equipment is ongoing.

● Installation of Four numbers of 132kV bays completed, fifth bay installation works ongoing.

● Earthing and civil foundation works for 132kV bays at Dhungesanghu Substation works ongoing

Transmission Line Works

●  All transmission line tower stubs, tower sets and accessories delivered to the site store.

● Excavation for all tower foundations is completed.

● Concrete works completed for 34 tower foundations.

● Tower erection completed for 34 towers.

● Tower protection works completed for 21 towers and ongoing for the remaining towers.

● Conductor stringing works completed between 8 towers and ongoing between 6 towers.