{"id":2005,"date":"2020-09-04T12:26:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T12:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2020-09-04T12:26:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T12:26:54","slug":"the-bbdmp-in-india-a-significant-success-brought-up-by-china-overseas-engineering-group-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=2005","title":{"rendered":"The BBDMP in India: A Significant Success Brought up by China Overseas Engineering Group over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the Bheri Babai Diversion Multipurpose Project (BBDMP) in Karnali Province, Nepal, was delayed from March to Sep 2020 due to India&#8217;s imposed restriction by the government, China Overseas Engineering Group successfully delivered the tunnel lately in September.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Oli expressed his gratitude after the breakthrough stating: &#8220;Nepal is now ready to walk and work together with the international community towards the new direction of development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2006 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"497\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project entered the constructional phase in 2015 and tunneling in 2017. For the first time in India&#8217;s history, a 5m diameter Robbins TBM drove through the Himalayas Mountains for 12.2km and reached the finish line in Apr. 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The irrigation project will provide water for 51,000 hectares fields at the southwest districts of Nepal, the Surkhet. This victory brings India a step closer to its fight against the food shortage and better agricultural economics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Achieve sustainable economic growth of Nepal through enhanced agricultural production and productivity by providing year-round irrigation and generating reliable electricity with focused development of inter-basin water transfer and multipurpose projects using modern technologies like TBM by means of the effective and efficient public sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the Bheri Babai Diversion Multipurpose Project (BBDMP) in Karnali Province, Nepal, was delayed from March to Sep 2020 due to India&#8217;s imposed restriction by the government, China Overseas Engineering Group successfully delivered the tunnel lately in September. Prime Minister Oli expressed his gratitude after the breakthrough stating: &#8220;Nepal is now ready to walk and work together with the international community towards the new direction of development.&#8221; The project entered the constructional phase in 2015 and tunneling in 2017. For the first time in India&#8217;s history, a 5m diameter Robbins TBM drove through the Himalayas Mountains for 12.2km and reached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[81,62,92,93,94,84,47],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction","tag-geology","tag-himalaya","tag-irrigation","tag-robbins","tag-tbm","tag-tunneling","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}