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Ministry of Finance agrees to remove 30-year service period in Nepal Police

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File image: Nepal Police headquarters

Kathmandu, December 14

The Ministry of Finance has given the green light in principle to abolish the 30-year service period in Nepal Police.

Finance Minister Janardan Sharma told Onlinekhabar that he had agreed in principle to remove the 30-year provision in the police.

“I have been saying that the 30-year service period in the Nepal Police should be removed since I had become Home Minister”, Sharma said. “Therefore, we have agreed in principle to remove the service period.”

The Supreme Court had ordered to regulate retirement, career etc. only by making provisions in the Police Act. However, the caretaker government is planning to remove the 30-year service period by amending the regulations.

Sources claim that the caretaker government of Sher Bahadur Deuba is bringing such a provision to ensure Dhiraj Pratap Singh continues as the inspector general of police (IGP). A source says Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand is not pleased by this decision.

After receiving approval from the Ministry of Finance, a proposal has been submitted Ministry of Law and the Public Service Commission after which it will be put forward at the Council of Ministers.

“This process is not as easy as it is rumoured,” an officer of the police headquarters says.

The caretaker government has recently been scrutinised for bringing the ‘National Criminal Procedure Code Amendment Ordinance’ to release Resham Chaudhary.

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