Kathmandu, Feb. 18 -- Changunarayan Municipality has decided to takeover the management of Nepal Engineering College (NEC), whose ownership dispute resulted in the resignation of a commissioner of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority.
Raj Narayan Pathak, a commissioner of the anti-graft body, on Friday tendered his resignation after being embroiled in a controversy following the release of videos that showed him admitting to receiving Rs7.8 million to settle a case related to the college.
The Changunarayan-based college, established as a not-for-profit social academic institute in 1994, was caught in a dispute after a group led by Lambodar Kumar Neupane attempted to convert it into a private limited company in May 2017. ...