Kathmandu, Aug 11: The government appointed Kulman Ghising the executive director of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA). This is the second time that Ghising has been appointed to head NEA.

He had retired from the post ten months ago, after completion of his four-year-term. According to the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Ghising has a four-year term in the NEA.

Likewise, NEA’s outgoing executive director Hitendra Dev Shakya has been appointed the full-term member with the special rank and TOR at the Water and Energy Commission.

A meeting of the Council of Ministers on Monday took a decision to this regard.

The KP Sharma Oli-led government decided not to continue Ghising for a second term in the NEA, even though there was a demand from the civic level for his reappointment.

The Ministry said that the Deuba-led government decided to bring Ghising to NEA second time, with the hope of seeing his outstanding performance. He was first appointed at the same post by the then government led by CPN (Maoist Centre) Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’.

Ghising was widely remembered by the public for his successful leadership in the NEA during his first term, as he was credited for liberating the NEA from 28 billion accumulated loss, taking the organization to profit. He has been praised for being able to free the public from the load-shedding issue while he was in office.

(With inputs from RSS)