Sad thing is that there were many International companies who wanted to build hydro plants for Nepal.......But strangly they were denyed liscences after these int companies denyed bribes to the government.............How do I know This .....one example is the Elysee frontier for the upper Karnali project who wanted to bring a 500 million dollars project ........everything went fine but at the last momment .....BRIBES became the issue and the French connected company was denyed...and are still looking to help but are angry at the government who keeps on delaying their permit for some reason the main reason for the delay..... .....PERMISSION FROM INDIA..........can you believe this... our government needs the Indian government to allow developement..............this really suc)ks