Browsing by Author "Adhikari, Deepak"

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    People's Participation (A Case Study of Chamati Land Pooling In Kathmandu Metropolitan City)
    (Department Of Public Administration, 2015) Adhikari, Deepak
    The government is almost the sole of services in the rural sectors of developing countries. People centered development culture has not yet been institutionalized in Nepal. In the academic discourse the decentralization has come to be regarded as the best way of integrating local people in the web of development. Development practitioners, however, see decentralization as a necessary but not a sufficient condition for involving cross section of local people into development intervention. Because of the elite domination, the power mass, the poor and the marginalized and successfully block their meaningful integration in local government in Nepal. The local government have to shoulder the increasing responsibility for the provision of public goods and services and the management of public goods and services and the management of public money in order to fulfill the responsibility effectively and properly, local government bodies must maintain fiscal discipline i.e. the ability to spend tax paid money and local resources effectively and in accordance with national and local micro economic objectives and targets. Present study is an endeavor to have a fresh look at the local governance status through assenting the level of people’s participation in developing process. The study also explores the actors and factors shaping participation as well as causes for non participation in Land pooling process in Nepal. For the purpose of the study the Chamati Land Pooling project was selected. For the research numbers of respondents from among the community members have been interviewed through a structured questionnaire. Furthermore, selected respondent like representative of landowner, the executive officer of KMC, engineer and project implementation officer were also interviewed.
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    A Simple and Generalized Model to Compute LT Distribution Loss and Testing of its Applicability
    (IOE Pulchowk Campus, 2023-07) Adhikari, Deepak
    The loss is the major problem for all electric utilities worldwide. Power loss occurs in all parts of the power system that include generation, transmission, and distribution loss. Most of the losses occur in the electricity distribution system. For the economic operation of the power system, these losses should be minimized by formulating and implementing proper loss reduction strategies and techniques. The electric utility can segregate losses, identify their priority, and may launch effective loss reduction strategies and techniques. Distribution feeder losses are grouped as technical loss (TL) and non-technical losses (NTL). The total loss of a LT feeder can be determined by knowing the total energy supplied by a transformer and the energy consumed by all consumers connected to that transformer. The difference between the total loss and technical loss is the non-technical loss and without knowing the TL NTL cannot be determined. But the determination of the TL of a LT feeder by simulation is tedious and time-consuming as the network of the LT line is complex and irregular. Therefore, some mathematical model shall be formulated which can help to determine the TL of the LT line in an easier and faster way. This research intends to find a simple and generalized model to compute LT distribution loss and testing of its applicability. This research is based on the real field data of certain parts of the Balaju Distribution Center, Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA). Five different distribution feeders of the urban area and five different distribution feeders of the rural area are taken for the analysis. Losses for those distribution feeders are found after load flow analysis on ETAP. Similarly, losses for the same distribution feeders are found using uniformly distributed load (UDL) and uniformly varying load (UVL) concepts and compared with ETAP simulation results. The study shows that, for the urban area, losses obtained from ETAP simulation and UDL concept are nearly equal with a maximum error of 3.86% while that of ETAP and UVL concept is not equal as there is a maximum variation of 51.32%. Similarly, for the rural areas, losses obtained from ETAP simulation and UDL concept are not equal with a maximum error of 26.83% and that of ETAP and UVL concept is also not equal as there is a maximum variation of 23.01%. Thus, the study shows that the losses of rural area LT feeders cannot be computed using either UDL or UVL concept but the losses of urban area LT feeders can be computed using the UDL concept with a maximum error of 3.86 %.