KATHMANDU, March 22: Nepal’s roads may be filling up with electric vehicles (EVs), but the country’s fuel consumption habits remain stubbornly old-school. Despite a surge in EV imports and government incentives to go electric, petroleum imports — including petrol, diesel, and cooking gas — are not slowing down.
President Ram Chandra Paudel has stressed the need for conservation of water bodies for the recharge of groundwater resources in view of the challenges of possible water crisis in the future.