It was not an easy task to build a hydropower project at that time when there were no roads, skilled manpower and other infrastructures. By mobilising senior officials, the Rana regime has not only accorded the project a high priority but also took an approach to swiftly address any problems that the first hydropower project could face while bringing it into operation. Similarly, Lieutenant Devi Bahadur and Subedar Harsha Bahadur were assigned the responsibilities related to the transmission line.

Kishor Narasingh Rana was the executive engineer while Kumar Narasingh Rana was working in the capacity of Superintending Engineer in the project. Padhma Shamsher Rana was the project chief while Mohan Shamsher and Keshav Shamsher undertook the responsibility to import machinery and equipment required to build the project. Senior members of the Rana regime were mobilized to implement this project. The Rana Prime Minister built the hydroelectricity with the help from British engineers and equipment and machineries as part of his plans to modernize Nepal. The power produced from the hydropower project, which is located 12 kilometres south of Kathmandu, was used mostly to light houses and palaces of the elite Rana families. The water stored from local sources in Satmule and Sesh Narayan was channelized from a 200-meter high dam to generate 500 kilowatts of electricity. The project is estimated to have cost Rs 713,273 at that time. It had taken four years to commission the project. The project was inaugurated by the then King Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah on May 22, 1911.īuilt by Prime Minister Chandra Shamsher JB Rana, the hydropower project was initially named after him: Chandra Jyoti.

Pharping Hydropower Project is the first hydropower project in Nepal and considered to be second in South Asia.

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