Kathmandu, December 7
It has already been three days since Minister for Federal Affairs and General Administration, Lalbabu Pandit, told media that the Cabinet meeting on Monday endorsed the Staff Adjustment Ordinance.
However, Minister for Communications and Information Technology Gokul Prasad Banskota, while making public decisions of the meeting during a press meet on Thursday, did not mention anything about the ordinance.
On the other hand, officials of the President’s Office say the Office has not received the ordinance yet.
So where is the ordinance now?
Leaders of trade unions of government staff have claimed top bureaucrats have seized the ordinance after the Cabinet endorsed it in order to make some crucial changes to meet their vested interests.
They add that Chief Secretary Lok Darshan Regmi himself is involved in the controversy.
Sources claim that the top bureaucrats want to change the provision about deployment of special class government staff as provincial government chief secretary. Likewise, they are not happy with the provision of deploying provincial government secretaries on the basis of seniority.
If the ordinance comes into effect as it was endorsed by the Cabinet, many senior secretaries of the Nepal government have to go to the provincial level. The secretaries do not want this, therefore they have put pressure on Regmi to make the changes, claim the union leaders.
