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How much did Kulekhani Dam cost to build?

The Kulekhani Dam is the 114 m high, 397 m long rock-fill dam on the Kulekhani River in the Makwanpur District of Nepal, owned by the Nepal Electricity Authority, forming a reservoir of 85 million cubic metres that feeds the 60 MW underground Kulekhani I power station with two 30 MW units, built from 1977 and completed in 1982. The 1996 World Bank review of large dams says the project was appraised in 1976 at a total cost of USD 68 million and completed in 1982 at a cost 80 percent above the original estimates, while Wikipedia gives a project cost of USD 117.84 million funded by the World Bank, Kuwait Fund, UNDP, the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund and the OPEC Fund.