About
Engineer at Nepal's Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation. I work on how water projects get approved, financed and built, and on what happens when they are not.
I am a civil engineer at the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation in Kathmandu. Much of my working day is spent with water and irrigation project files at the stage where they are still proposals. That is a useful vantage point: I see which projects move, which ones stall, and why.
Alongside that I contributed to drafting the Water Resources Act and its Regulation, and I work on transboundary rivers.
What I am interested in
Three questions keep pulling me back.
Why do public projects in Nepal take so long? Not the anecdotes, but the actual distribution of time between conception, feasibility, statutory clearances, procurement and construction. I have been collecting that data because I think the bottleneck is not where most people assume it is.
What is the real exposure of our water system to a changing climate? Drying hill springs, a dry winter, a super El Niño year, an outburst flood in Rasuwa. These are usually treated as separate incidents. They are the same system under stress.
Where does policy actually bind? Procurement law, budget and expenditure rules, disaster and water policy. A rule that looks reasonable on paper can quietly make a project impossible. Finding those places is more useful than another round of general recommendations.
How I got here
I studied civil engineering at IOE Pulchowk Campus, graduating in 2023 with distinction on a Government of Nepal full merit scholarship. My undergraduate thesis modelled climate change impacts on crop yield in Tulsipur, Dang, under Prof. Dr. Vishnu Prasad Pandey. I stayed on as a research assistant for three years before joining the ministry.
I am now doing an MSc in Disaster Risk Engineering and Management at Pulchowk, and an MA in Economics at Ratna Rajyalaxmi Campus. The second one is deliberate: engineering tells you whether something can be built, economics tells you whether it should be.
Teaching
Since January 2024 I have taught Lok Sewa and NEC licence preparation at Fast Track Engineering Institute, and I put worked problems and revision material on YouTube for people who cannot pay for classes. Teaching an exam forces you to understand the subject better than passing it ever did.
Why this site exists
I wanted one place that holds all of it: the papers and the projects, but also the things that did not work, the applications I did not get, and the notes I am still arguing with myself about. A CV shows you the outcomes. This is meant to show the working.
If you want to reach me, the fastest route is email.