KATHMANDU, March 23 -- Parliamentary committees - supposed to be oversight agencies on government actions and inactions, anomalies and misappropriation - have so far failed to play any significant role in case of Melamchi Water Supply Project, which remains at deadlock.

The fate of the project to deliver 170 million liters of water every day to the Kathmandu Valley remains uncertain at the last leg of completion.

The Minister for Water Supply Bina Magar is hell-bent on bringing back terminated Italian contractor into the project, while bureaucrats of the project are against the minister's proposal as there is no legal ground to revoke the contract termination.

The project office has completed the paperwork for fresh contracting process...