Kathmandu, November 10: Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation has appointed Hitendra Dev Shakya as the Officiating Managing Director of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) on Monday (November 9).
Shakya was earlier acting as Managing Director of NEA Engineering Company, a subsidiary of the NEA.
The post of the Managing Director of the state-run power utility had remained vacant for the last two months after Kulman Ghising’s four-year term as the chief of the Authority expired in mid-September.
The newly-appointed Officiating Managing Director Shakya is perceived as someone who fully supported Ghising in his efforts at the NEA to end the power cut. Shakya had also acted as a power sector specialist at the Office of the Millennium Challenge Nepal Compact for the development of projects in the power sector for MCA qualification.
