The government in its white paper had floated a plan to declare a fresh ‘energy crisis’ but the deadline it set to do so has come on gone, indicating this too will not be translated into reality.The Ministry of Energy came up with a to-do action plan along with ‘energy crisis’ declaration with January 14, 2016, as the deadline, in its Energy Development Work Plan-2072 in line with a white paper issued on November 24, 2015.MoE has not only missed its deadline to declare crisis but officials are also clueless about the new date for making formal declaration, along with issuing a bill on ‘energy crisis’, incorporating legal provisions of reducing procedural hassles for hydropower developers and reforms in sectors related to the energy sector