[4] NEA had planned to install 15MW by April 2020 which was again delayed due to nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.

The project cost is approximately NPR 4 billion which is funded by the government through NEA and concessional loan from the World Bank.

[5] The loan is a part of an agreement with the World Bank made in February 2015 to provide $130 million to the government of Nepal to build solar stations to supply electricity to the Kathmandu Valley.

Mukesh Raj Kafle, the director of NEA, unilaterally decided to hire a Chinese company to build the project.

Kulman Ghising, the following director, decided to award the project to another Chinese contractor, Risen Energy Co., but the parliamentary committee invalidated the decision after receiving a complaint that the price of NPR 3.7 billion quoted by Raijin was NPR 680 million higher than the cost proposed by the contractor favoured by Kafle.