The long-term nature of these issues and the high expectations that surround them suggests Nepal should get started on such long-term undertakings with a minimum of delay.
Its exceptionally long range, large payload and resilience to detection and attack by even advanced air defenses (like those fielded by Iraq) offer policy-makers the means to bring weapons to bear on distant targets with a minimum of delay or risk of loss of American lives.
These include one measure to delay the age of retirement on full pension for women, another to abolish the state minimum pension and replace it with a sliding scale, and a third to reform health schemes run by trade unions.
The ostensible reason for the delay is a row between the department of telecommunications and the finance ministry, which wants to raise the minimum price in the auction.