KATHMANDU:- Dirghayu Kumar Shrestha has been appointed as the Officiating Executive Director of Nepal Electricity Authority.

Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Biraj Bhakta Shrestha today assigned the responsibility of Officiating Executive Director to Shrestha, who was the Deputy Executive Director of the Authority.

Shrestha has been assigned to the new responsibility after Executive Director Hitendra Dev Shakya was relieved of his post through an ordinance brought by the government, according to Minister Shrestha’s secretariat.