'Sunkoshi Marin Diversion Project' (सुनकोशी मरिन डाइभर्सन आयोजना) is one of the National Pride Projects being developed by Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation (Nepal).
[3] The project is an inter-basin transfer project to transfer water from Sunkoshi River to the Marin Khola, a tributary of Bagmati River.
The flow will be discharged to the Bagmati Irrigation System to irrigate additional 122,000 ha of land in Rautahat, Dhanusha, Mahottari, Sarlahi and Bara.
The intake has a 12 m high diversion dam in Sunkoshi river.
[5] The project also has a power station to generate 38.62 MW of electricity.