KATHMANDU, May 24 -- Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Pampha Bhusal has announced her plan to bring a new policy to increase power consumption in the country.

Addressing an event in the capital city on Monday, the energy minister said industrial use of electricity would be increased and e-vehicles and e-stoves would be promoted to increase electricity consumption in Nepal.

Saying that the country's trade deficit was rising owing to the huge amount of import of petroleum products, Bhusal argued that the import of petroleum products could be substituted by using electricity.

So far in the current fiscal year, the country has imported petroleum products worth Rs 220 billion.

Minister Bhusal also stated that the countr...