KATHMANDU, Jan. 15 -- A total of 14 people have submitted applications to become the Managing Director of Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC).

The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies published a notice on December 23 to select the Managing Director of NOC through an open competition.

According to the ministry, Kamalendra Lal Karna of Mahottari, Uttarkumar Regmi of Kathmandu, Er Sahadev Chand, Dilip Shekhar Shrestha, Er Dr Dolprasad Chapagai of Chitwan, Pankaj Kumar Das of Morang, Madhav Regmi, Er Amod Prasad Chaudhary have applied for the post.

Similarly, Ramdev Yadav of Dhanusha, Sanjiv Kumar Dev of Saptari, Chandika Prasad Bhatta of Gorkha, Basanta Kumar Pandey of Dang, Dolindra Prasad Sharma of Baglung and Shatrudhan Prasad Pudasain...