Umesh Thani appointed as Executive Director of NOC
KATHMANDU: MARCH. 11 – Umesh Thani has been appointed as the Executive Director of Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC). Thursday’s cabinet meeting appointed Thani as the corporation’s executive director.
Thani will lead the corporation for the next four years. Thani’s appointment to the corporation comes at a time when international oil prices are high, which has had a negative impact on Nepal. Thani now bears full responsibility for the corporation, from financial to institutional reform.
The names of Engineer Umesh Prasad Thani, Chandika Prasad Bhatta, and Jeevan Prakash Sitaula were recommended to the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, and Supplies by the Ministry’s Executive Director Selection Committee.
The corporation has been without an executive director for the past two months after Surendra Poudel, the corporation’s executive director, left on Jan 6 after completing his three-year tenure.
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Following Poudel’s departure, the corporation issued a notice to fill the vacancy. According to the information, 18 people applied to be the corporation’s executive director.
Thani has already been appointed to the Nepal Electricity Authority’s Board of Directors. He is the chairperson of the Center for Democratic Engineers Nepal (CDEN), a Nepali Congress-affiliated organization of engineers.
