Nepal, April 24 -- The Supreme Court has scrapped a provision in the Electronic Procurement System Directive-2023 which made it mandatory to publish procurement notices only through the electronic medium.

A division bench of the top court repealed the provision as it contradicted the existing legal provision. The Advertising Association of Nepal had challenged the controversial directive in the top court.

"The provision to limit public procurement only to the electronic medium contradicts the Public Procurement Act," reads the full text of the January verdict released on Monday. "The provision is, therefore, scrapped."

With the court order, notice of all the public procurements must be published in national and international newspapers...