If Parliament doesn't endorse the Millennium Challenge Corporation compact even during the upcoming winter session, serious questions will be raised about the future of the multi-million dollar US aid agreement, a senior official from MCC Nepal said.

With some sections within the ruling Nepal Communist Party expressing reservations about the compact terming it part of the US Indo-Pacific Strategy, the agreement hasn’t been ratified even after three years after both the governments signed the compact.

Under the programme, Nepal is to receive $500 million, which is to be used to fund the construction of a cross-border transmission line and improvement of roads.

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