Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is in a fix. It hasn't been able to collect dues amounting to Rs 2 billion. And it is not people like you and us that are not paying their bills. The defaulters are the government and local government institutions who owe NEA almost all of that money, the private sector and individual subscribers owe the rest. Government corporations owe the NEA about Rs 220 million and the home ministry alone owes the utility some Rs 40 million. It is a Catch-22 situation for NEA officials: donors say there will be no money until the authority can prove that its bills are paid, and the largest defaulter of them all is the government, which has to approve all NEA loans.