August 23: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding  (MoU) with the Nepal Police (NP) for the construction and operation of charging stations for electric vehicles (EV).    
Inspector General of Nepal Police Dhiraj Pratap Singh and Nepal Electricity Authority's Executive Director Kulman Ghising signed the MoU amid a function on Monday.    
Inspector General Singh, extending gratitude towards the NEA for the MoU, urged the NEA leadership for expanding charging stations in the police offices having huge workforce.    
Stating that Nepal Police had been collaborating with NEA in cases of theft and leakage of electricity, Singh assured that the Nepal Police was ever ready to give security to the charging stations to be built along the highways and hill areas.    
Similarly, Ghising shared that NEA was planning to build a charging station in every 60 kilometres in the highway and opined that the role of police was very important in this regard.    
According to him, collaborating with Nepal Police would be very important in addressing the security concerns of the charging stations and issues related to locating the right venue to build the charging stations.    
The MoU aims to promote usage of EV.  The deal has been inked in the context of the environment, ecology and living creatures being affected by carbon emission from fossil-fuel powered vehicles as well as industries. -- RSS