“WFP has been in Nepal for over 50 years, bringing essential food to the most vulnerable,” WFP Country Director Pippa Bradford said in a statement. “WFP will ultimately assist in the construction of a stronger and more prosperous Nepal.”

The WFP added that its humanitarian response to the people of Nepal is carried out in close partnership with the Nepal government. "Working with authorities at the central, district and Village Development Committee levels and with local partners, WFP has to date reached over two million people with food," the agency states.

The UN agency has been under scanner for repeated complaints of poor quality of its supplies and its reluctance to provide details about how it stores the goods and how they are transported to the beneficiaries.