Most of the projects have been accused of delaying the construction due to lack of approval of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report on time. The Ministry of Forests and Environment has been blamed for the delay and the contracting authority has withdrawn. But officials of the Ministry of Forests and Environment say that there is a problem when the concerned agencies send the 'EIA' report without completing it. The official claims that if the general consultancy is given some money to prepare the EIA report, it will not be complete.

The Secretary of the Ministry of Forestry, Deepak Kumar Kharal, said that the EIA report comes as a 'cut paste' during the discussion organized by the Federalism and National Concerns Committee under the National Assembly on the implementation of national pride projects on Monday. "Some EIA reports are cut and pasted," he said.

He said that he has worked by giving priority to projects that are not only of national pride but also have national priority and have been approved for investment by the Investment Board. "According to the Public Procurement Act, the budget should be allocated only after land acquisition and environmental studies are completed," he said, "but the trend is to put the project in the budget first and then proceed with the EIA process." He told that it will take 9 months to a year to do

EIA. "But since the budget has already been set aside, it is necessary to do an EIA and approve it immediately," he said The saying is .

'The program should be put in the budget to acquire the land, and the project implementation should be mentioned in the next year,' he said He said that when the EIA report was prepared, the projects had to be corrected many times. "The head of the relevant agency does not come to the ministry with a report for EIA approval, they send it to the consulting firm to submit the report," he said He said that he did not reach. There is no problem in the EIA report that has been delivered. "There are those who have reached out to the political leadership to put pressure on the report that came without completing the process," he said He said that the EIA report that has arrived will be presented and approved in the presence of experts. Recently, he informed the committee that a separate desk has been set up to look at EIA reports from government projects and private and other organizations.

The EIA report is reviewed by the Environment and Biodiversity Division. There are 12 employees working in the department. "Many EIA reports come, the original report is 200 pages, we have to study the report one by one," he said He said that the resources and manpower are working as far as possible.

"Every year, more than one and a half hundred EIA reports come for approval," he said, "of which only 55 reports are approved."

'After the EIA report comes, we need to coordinate with the Division Forest Offices, which are under the province,' he said, 'therefore, as mentioned in the EIA report, we will request those offices to understand whether the tree is in the field, this will also allow the EIA to be approved. It takes time to do it. Sometimes the number of trees mentioned in the field and in the EIA report is different. He said that in such a case, supplementary EIA should be done again. 

Director General of Forest and Land Conservation Department Shivkumar Wagle said that because they have to work by paying compensation for the private land project, many of them become center forest areas. "The responsible staff of the project do not come with the EIA report," he said. .  Director General of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Department Ramchandra Kandel said that while choosing a

project, it should be decided only after discussing whether it is suitable for that place. "The road construction may have been stopped in the forest area," he said Committee chairperson Sonam Gelzen Sherpa said that a discussion was organized about this after coming. 

Power project in Jhola 

Secretary Kharal said that although the EIA of the 45,000 megawatt capacity project was approved, it was not implemented. "Despite the approval of the EIA report for so many capacities, only 3500 megawatts of electricity is being produced so far," he said.