POWERing Nepal - Connecting Markets

**JOINTLY ORGANIZED BY NUSACCI, AMCHAM/India, US EMBASSY, USAID/ Nepal**

**Date: November 2 - 3, 2006**

**Venue: Hotel Radisson, Kathmandu**

**[Program Schedule (DRAFT)]{.underline}**

**THU November 2, 2006**

17:30 - 19:00 Reception hosted by US Ambassador James F. Moriarty, Kamal
Kunj, Ambassador\'s Resdience

**FRI November 3, 2006**

08:30 - 09:00 Registration; coffee

**[Inaugural Session]{.underline}**

08:55 - 09:00 Meeting called to order by MC Jamie Dragon, US Embassy

09:00 - 09:20 Opening Remarks by Ambassador James F. Moriarty

09:20 - 09:40 Highlights of Investment Opportunity in Nepal's Hydropower
Sector

By Minister of Finance, Key Note speaker

09:40 - 10:00 International Financial Institutions' role and assistance
in Hydropower

Development in Nepal

By Ken Ohashi, Country Representative -- Nepal, The World Bank

10:00 - 10:15 Nepal's commitment to develop hydropower for domestic and
large-scale exports

> By Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Guest

10:15 - 10:30 Overview on private sector's role in Hydropower
Development and Trade and

Vote of Thanks By Prasidha B. Panday, President, NUSACCI

10:30 - 10:45 **Tea/Coffee Break**

**[Presentation Session]{.underline}**

Panel Chair: T.D. Niraula, Secretary of the MoWR (invited)

**Investment Opportunities & Transmission Line Study**

10:45 - 11:05 Presentation on issues and solutions of power trade and
the **regulatory regime in India** for import from Nepal, in the context
of Electricity Act 2003 of India

> Presenter: S. K. Dube, Director of Operations, PTC/ India

11:05 - 11:25 Presentation on issues and solutions of power trade, and
the **regulatory regime in Nepal** for large-scale power generation and
export to India

> Presenter: Anup K. Upadhyaya, Jt. Secy., Ministry of Water Resources,
> GON

11:25 - 11:45 Presentation on the issues of power supply to India,
**infrastructure issues**

> Presenter: Subir Sen, Add. General Manager/Power Grid Corporation of
> India

11:45 - 12:05 Presentation of Transmission Line Study -- USAID/IRG/NEA

> Presenter: G. Krish Krishnan, P.E., Chief of Party, PSHDP (GON/USAID)

12:05 - 12:15 Collection of Questions

12:15 - 13:00 Question/Answer on three presentations

13:00 - 14:15 **Lunch**

**[Session on Action Items]{.underline}**

Panel Chair: J. K. Mackay, Director General, DOED (invited)

14:15 - 14:45 Power Point presentation by DOED Nepal of 3 best HP
projects for FDI

GON -- initiatives. Presenter: Damodar Bhattarai, Deputy Director
General - Project Study Division, Department of Electricity
Development - DOED

14:45 - 15:15 Power Point presentation by NEA Nepal of 3 best HP
projects for NEA- PPP joint-venture, NEA -- initiatives

> Presenter: Arjun Kumar Karki, Managing Director, Nepal Electricity
>
> Authority (NEA)

Participants are requested to brianstorm about the Champion team during
Coffee Break

15:15 - 15:35 **Tea/Coffee Break**

**[Session on Champion Team]{.underline}**

Panel Chairs: IPPAN, IPPAI, AMCHAM

15:35 - 16:00 Champion team formation for follow up (Champion Team --
IPPAN/ IPPAI/

AMCHAM/ NUSACCI/US EMB, USAID/KATHMANDU)

16:00 - 16:40 Open deliberations on Champion Teams

**[Closing Session]{.underline}**

Panel Chair: DCM Nick Dean, US Embassy

16:40 - 17:00 Summary of deliberations by XXXXX

Summary of follow up actions by XXXXX

Vote of thanks by DCM Nick Dean

18:30 - 20:30 **Cocktail Dinner**

One-on-one meetings of US business representatives with NEA, DOED,
IPPAN, US Embassy officials may follow after the closing session or on
Saturday or Sunday.