Kathmandu, September 26
Nepali Congress lawmaker Gagan Thapa has asked Prime Minister Oli why he is bent on awarding the multi-billion dollar Budhi Gandaki hydel to China’s Gezhouba Group.
Addressing the parliament on Wednesday, Thapa said that the government should select the project’s developer through open competition.
“The question I want to ask is why the developer was not selected through competition,” said Thapa referring to the recent government decision to re-award the project to China’s Gezhouba Group.
Thapa’s comments come as the KP Oli government recently announced its intention to re-award the contract to the Chinese firm after it could not muster enough resources for it to be built with local resources.
