6.1.1 Provisions to implement the programmes identified under the environmental impacts assessment study report shall be made in the project sites where implementation of infrastructures such as power-houses, dam sites, tunnels or canals and reservoirs, transmission lines, distribution lines of the hydropower generation project have direct adverse impact The prevailing laws shall govern the environment-related matters during the construction of hydropower projects. Provision shall be made to release such quantum of water which is higher of either at least ten per cent of the minimum monthly average discharge of the river/stream or the minimum required quantum as identified in the environmental impact assessment study report.
6.1.2 The private sector licensee shall be encouraged to acquire the houses and land required to construct a hydropower project on its own. Provided, however, that if the necessary houses and land could not be obtained, Government of Nepal may make available such houses and land to the private sector, in the same manner as it acquires the land to any institution under the prevailing laws. The licensee has to bear all the expenditures incurred in obtaining such houses and land. If the land is government owned, Government of Nepal shall make it available on lease for a period up to the term of license in accordance with the prevailing laws.
6.1.3 The licensee has to rehabilitate and resettle the families to be displaced while generating, transmitting and distributing electricity in accordance with the standards specified by Government of Nepal. The private sector shall be provided necessary assistance by the governmental level in this respect. Provided, however, that the investors themselves have to bear the necessary resources required therein by including it in the project cost of the project in operation.