Kathmandu, March 19 -- Nepal's record of delivering large infrastructure projects on time is dismal. Here are a few examples. There are many others.

Similarly, in December 2012, the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CANN) contracted Constructora San Jose of Spain (CSJ) to carry out improvements at Tribhuvan International Airport over a period of three years. At the end of this period, it had completed less than one-fifth of the agreed upon work. In December 2016, CAAN terminated CSJ's contract and the project is in limbo.

In May 2017, the government scrapped the MOU with China Gezhoaba Group Corporation (CGCC) to construct the Budhi Gandhaki project and announced the project would be constructed using Nepali resources. In September 201...