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Introduction

About SCECO

Salleri Chialsa Electricity Company Limited (SCECO) at Salleri, Solukhumbu was registered in Falgun 6th, 2047 (February 18th, 1991) as a public limited company under the ownership of Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) and Nepal Electricity Company (NEA).   The history of the Salleri Chialsa Project began about 60 years ago, after the people’s uprising in Tibet and its suppression by the Chinese. At that time, thousands of Tibetan refugees moved into eastern Nepal and settled in the district of Solukhumbu. With aid from various international organizations, Government of Nepal started a program in 1960 to help resettle the refugees and founded (among others) the Tibetan Community of Chialsa. Most of Tibetan families in the community were economically dependent on handicrafts. The handicraft center, with its carpet factory, where the raw wool was preprocessed, washed, spun, dyed and woven into carpets, was the most important source of income for these Tibetans.   The first studies were made by the Swiss Association for Technical Assistance (SATA) in 1960 A.D. Government of Nepal (then HMG) and SATA agreed to set up a mini micro hydro plant near Salleri/Chialsa in Solukhumbu district in 1977 A.D. Initially the main motive was to provide power supply for handcraft and cottage industries (e.g. Chialsa Handicraft Center), aiming to ease the pressure on ecology by providing alternative energy source to firewood and improving the living conditions of the local people.

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Phone

038-520210, 038-520220, 9741768459

Corporate Office:

Solududhkunda Municipality-5, Salleri, Solukhumbu, Nepal