Private sector demands share as India keen to buy Nepal's surplus power

KATHMANDU, Nepal Nepal is expected to have surplus energy starting this monsoon, which India is eager to buy. Still, the Nepali private sector is not yet permitted to engage in power trade.

The government is considering revising the law allowing the private sector to engage in the electricity trade after the previous attempt to grant such permission failed.

The Electricity Act of 1992 prohibits the privat