Nepal, June 30 -- Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) initiated the process to move its aviation fuel depot, currently located at Tribhuvan International Airport's Sinamangal area, due to safety concerns. However, the effort has stalled because the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has delayed transferring the promised land.

After a Cabinet decision in mid-August 2022 to relocate the depot, necessary land near the Nepal Army Golf Course at Gauchar was earmarked for the NOC. But CAAN has not yet transferred the full plot, said Pradeep Yadav, head of the aviation fuel depot.

NOC has made repeated written and verbal requests to CAAN to finalize the land agreement. However, the four-kuwa plot still hasn't been officially handed over, and str...