Nepal, April 11 -- A member of the parliamentary International Relations and Tourism Committee has revealed that there is an "invisible" hand preventing the passage of two crucial civil aviation bills.

"A former tourism minister has informed our committee that he tried to table the civil aviation bills in Parliament, but did not succeed," lawmaker Udaya Shumsher Rana told an interaction on Tuesday.

"The minister informed us that there is an invisible hand stopping the bills."

The two long-pending aviation bills-the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal Bill, and the Air Service Authority of Nepal Bill-envisage splitting up Nepal's aviation body into two entities-service provider and regulator, a condition for Nepal to be struck off the Eur...