Infrastructure Development Committee Chair Ashish Gajurel is pushing for smart traffic technology in Kathmandu and demanding faster progress on national road projects.
The Nepal Electricity Authority has announced daily power cuts in various Kathmandu neighbourhoods from October 30 to November 6 to facilitate underground cabling.
The Nepal Electricity Authority has completed the 132 kV Keraun substation in Morang, which it says will cut technical leakage and make supply more reliable. Connecting it will cut power in five districts on October 31 and November 1.
Prime Minister Balendra Shah met with 17 engineer lawmakers at Singha Durbar on Wednesday, calling for technical input on industrial policy and lawmaking while his office rebutted claims of ranking MPs.
The Nepal Electricity Authority is arranging emergency power imports from India following disaster-related outages, while moving forward with Indian export agreements and a $200 million ADB-backed storage initiative.
The Electricity Regulatory Commission has announced open-access transmission tariffs for private energy producers, even as developers submit broad reform demands to overhaul grid access and end utility monopolies.
Energy Minister Biraj Bhakta Shrestha has directed subordinate departments to scrap end-of-year spending habits after the ministry recorded just 3.08 percent financial progress in the first two and a half months of the fiscal year.
Weekend floods knocked roughly 1,000 MW off Nepal's power grid, compounding late August damages to Rs 74 billion and prompting the NEA to outline winter electricity imports.
Displaced residents in Manang returned to their villages on Monday as an artificial lake formed by a landslide-blocked Marsyangdi River receded, lowering flood alarms across the river corridor.
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