added .
As many as overall 97.5 per cent work has already been completed on the strategically important 969 MW
Hydropower Project and its wet testing will be carried out in March.
100 per cent concrete work of the project had already been completed besides 98 per cent dry test of the equipments.
National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) would hand over 500 kV transmission line on February 11-12 after which feed back of switch- yard would be assessed.
water filling (pressurization) of its water way system comprising 51.5-kilometer long tunnels has also been commenced in January. the project was fast heading towards completion and most of the works - critical in nature - had been successfully completed .
Construction of the weir (dam) of the project , water way system, installation of electrical and mechanical equipment including turbines, generators and transformers in the power house and the switch-yard and dry-testing of these equipment had already been completed.
