Kathmandu. Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Biraj Bhakta Shrestha, has suggested the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) to expedite the electricity bill due collection by prioritizing it in its daily schedule.\u00a0In a separate meeting of the Board of Directors of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) and Deputy Executive Directors of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), it was suggested to clear the arrears of electricity as soon as possible. <\/p>\n
“We don’t have to wait for instructions from the minister to recover the dues,” he said. Many studies, investigations and decisions have been made in the past. There is no need for further decision. Do it according to what is in the law, what is the procedure. Don’t sideline anyone. The top management of the authority should pay attention to mobilizing its mechanism instead of waiting for the ministry’s directive to recover the dues. \u2019<\/p>\n
Minister Shrestha said that the dues of dedicated feeders and trunk lines, internet service providers, industrial areas, street lights and other sectors should be recollected. <\/p>\n
He said that the NRA would not hesitate to recover the dues in the areas except those that are in the legal process. According to the 63rd report of the Auditor General, the electricity tariff arrears stood at Rs 50.01 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kathmandu. Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Biraj Bhakta Shrestha, has suggested the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) to expedite the electricity bill due collection by prioritizing it in its daily schedule.\u00a0In a separate meeting of the Board of Directors of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) and Deputy Executive Directors of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), itContinue reading “No need to wait for minister’s directive to recover electricity dues: Minister Shrestha”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,123,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-breaking-en","category-artha-khabar-policital-update-en","category-samachar-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/biraj-bhakta-shrestha.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73577,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73576\/revisions\/73577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/73574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}