Hydroelectricity Power Potentiality and its Development in Nepal

Abstract

A number of benefits like that of minimization of the workloads and time of fetching firewood, motivates house to help in many works like that industries, official work, agricultural work and kitchen gardening and also marginalized community inclusive to the livelihood programmed for the betterment etc. are major impacts of hydroelectricity development in Nepal. Further, it also have economic impacts such as saving money for firewood, minimization of health services,women participation in economic works and slurry usefulness higher productivity of agricultural farms. The number of impacts goes on when environmentalists explain them. Present study reveals that the effect of hydropower is general in nature. It has made the work easier within the social construction of gender, but it has no effect to increase women participation in income generating activities outside the farm. After installation of hydropower plant women left to go to jungle for collecting firewood or they are saving money by not buying firewood anymore. Social activities of women are mostly religious, which are also parts of the social construction. Besides these observations the study found that hydropower in Nepal is not able to benefit Dalits and minorities as they are not included in the program significantly. The other weakness is that it is also not able to demonstrate the benefits of hydropower for lighting and thus, is limited to industrial, cooking and slurry use for technical, official, agricultural, kitchen gardening and farms. However, hydropower programmed in general, has positive effects to reduce the workload and improve health situation of our life.