KATHMANDU, March 18 -- The Ministry of Energy has failed to achieve most of the targets that it had set when incumbent Minister for Energy, Water Resources, and Irrigation Barsaman Pun assumed office a year ago.

The ministry unveiled a 51-page progress report in Kathmandu on Sunday, outlining progress made under Pun.

After visiting Upper Tamakoshi project site along with Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli in April last year, Pun had said that the national pride project will be within the current fiscal year or mid-July 2019. But the project management has already extended the deadline by six months to December 2019. Project officials say it will still difficult to meet the new deadline.

The project is important for the country's energy s...