Prime Minister KP Oli secured 20 unit shares of the Trishuli III B hydropower project.

The project has been launched under the government’s ‘People’s Hydropower Program’.

His spouse Radhika Shakya secured 20 units. PM Oli and Shakya had applied for 10,000 units of share each.

The Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation announced the decision to allocate the project’s shares to the applicants.

Similarly, Energy Minister Barsha Man Pun secured 20 units, while his spouse and former Speaker Onsari Gharti received 20 shares. Secretary of the Ministry, Dinesh Kumar Ghimire got 20 units.

Of the total applicants, 50,267 received 30 units of shares each, and 145,559 received 20 units of shares, according to Paras Mani Dhakal, chief executive officer of Global IME Capital.