Kathmandu, Feb. 5 -- Even though the government served a letter of termination to the Italian contractor of the Melamchi Water Supply Project on December 20, it has continued communication with Cooperativa Muratori e Cementisti di Ravenna, as officials look clueless about how they are going to take the national pride project forward.

After officials from Cooperativa Muratori e Cementisti di Ravenna (CMC) did not return to Nepal and put forth preconditions for resuming works-they also did not respond to the government's earlier letter asking them whether they wanted to resume works-the government decided to shoot a letter of termination.

But according to sources at the Water Supply Ministry, some ministry representatives "are in Bangkok ...