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SC Impedes Energy Minister's Decision

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SC Impedes Energy Minister's Decision
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December 29: The Supreme Court has issued interim order to Ministry of Energy not to execute the decision of sacking three board members of Nepal Electricity Authority. Janardan Sharma, Minister of Energy, on December 19, sacked the board members Laxman Agrawal, Manoj Mishra and Suraj Lamichanne of NEA citing unsupportive toward minimising power cut campaign and institutional good governance of NEA. Minister Sharma demanded clarification from the board members on acting against their code of conduct.  However, upon not receiving a satisfying clarification, Minister Sharma sacked the board members and appointed Bhakta Bahdur Pun, Chetraj Joshi and Umesh Thami in their place as board members. Following the incident, Lamichhane, one of the sacked board member filed writ petition against the MoE decision on December 27.  

The single bench of Supreme Court justice Prakash Raut ordered the government not to implement the MoE's decision. Justice Raut, issuing an interim order to Ministry of Energy and NEA, ordered not to implement the decision of sacking the board members. With the interim order, Minister Sharma's decision of sacking the three board members of NEA has impeded for now. The three board members had their tenure till mid-April 2017. 

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