Kathmandu, Dec. 14 -- A decade-old initiative to break up Nepal's civil aviation body into two entities is alive once again, as officials make a fresh bid to get Nepal removed from the EU Air Safety List by fulfilling the few remaining conditions.

A draft Civil Aviation Bill that envisages splitting the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal into regulator and service provider was submitted to the Legislative Committee of the cabinet on Thursday, Tourism Ministry Secretary Kedar Bahadur Adhikari told the Post. "We are hopeful that the Cabinet will give its green signal to register the draft bill in Parliament."

President Bidya Devi Bhandari has summoned the winter session of the Federal Parliament on December 20.

An official at the Civil Av...