Making
Civil Service Result-oriented,
by Ballav Dahal (rn 09/09/2024)
Government
fails to pick ‘best employee’ in
civil service for the eighth year
in a row : The government did not
announce this award again this
year due to the absence of any
employee meeting the set criteria,
by Rishiram Poudyal (kp 08/09/2024),
Mismatched
incentives : Just giving out gongs won’t
serve the purpose either of motivating
civil servants or attracting qualified
ones (kp 09/09/2024)
Making
Bureaucracy Functional, by Mukti Rijal (rn
05/09/2024)
Home
Ministry transfers 25 Joint Secretaries and 16
CDOs (rep 30/05/2024)
Understanding
Nepali bureaucracy : Excessive power to
'karmacharis' leads to a lack of efficiency in
public institutions, by Sushav Niraula (kp
09/05/2024)
Niraula
appointed as DG of DoI, new CDOs assigned in 11
districts (rep 19/03/2024) [Social non-inclusion is
alive and well!], 19
candidates in running for Sebon chair (ae
19/03/2024) [And again
the same game! That those responsible are not
ashamed to only consider people from this small
social minority!]
Ensure
Result-oriented Bureaucracy, by Mukti Rijal
(rn 07/03/2024)
Bill
proposes retirement age of 60 citing longer
lifespans : The Federal Civil Service Bill
registered in Parliament seeks to raise
retirement age by two years from existing 58
years. Hopes to cut pension burden, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 06/03/2024), Retirement
age set at 60, entry age limit of 37 for female,
32 for male applicants, by Bhuwan Sharma
(rep 06/03/2024)
PSC
opens vacancies for 257 positions (rep
17/11/2023)
Government
offices to close at 4 pm starting today (kh
02/11/2023)
Local
govt employees prepare for protests to get their
demands addressed (rep 20/09/2023)
Expectations
from the Proposed Civil Service Bill, by
Hari Prasad Shrestha (rep 13/09/2023)
Make
Public Administration Accountable, by Hari
Prasad Lamsal (rn 08/09/2023)
Addressing
Civil Service Issues, by Mukti Rijal (rn
06/07/2023)
Straw-legged
bureaucracy: Mere shadow of the politics, by
Pushpa Raj Joshi (ht 29/06/2023)
Transport
mgmt office that looks like a maze, by Nayak
Paudel (rn 22/06/2023)
Civil
servants withdraw protest after deal with
government : Government assures protesters the
Federal Civil Service Bill will be tabled in the
current session of Parliament that starts on
Sunday (kp 06/05/2023)
Administrative
Reforms For Development, by Lok Nath Bhusal
(rn 27/03/2023)
Rethinking
retirement age : The civil servants in Nepal
retire relatively early, and this is not good
news for the country, by Pushpa Raj Joshi
(kp 06/03/2023)
Essential
govt offices to provide services on public
holidays (kh 25/02/2023)
Time
for civil service reform : The administration is
the main mechanism for implementing the state’s
laws and policies, by Khim Lal Devkota (kp
22/02/2023), Need
To Reform Nepali Bureaucracy, by Mukti Rijal
(rn 23/02/2023)
Services
at passport department are still in shambles :
People visiting the department say delays and
‘middlemen culture’ are still rife despite Prime
Minister Dahal’s instruction to deliver swift,
hassle-free services, by Rajkaran Mahato (ae
21/02/2023)
Action
recommended against 1,690 civil servants (ht
17/02/2023)
Nepal’s
PM warns of action in case of unnecessary delay
in service delivery. Then Passport Department
announces system failure. Is this only a
coincidence? : Nepal’s democratization processes
have failed to foster effective civil service
reform. Largely characterized as a conformist
force, bureaucracy is politically divided and
less accountable to people (nlt 03/01/2023),
Prime
minister Dahal warns top bureaucrats to either
shape up or ship out : Dahal wants immediate
improvements in the government’s service
delivery mechanism (kp 04/01/2023)
Of
passports and driving licences : The new
folks in Parliament should work at
making services easily accessible to win
the next elections, by Sujeev Shakya
(kp 13/12/2022)
Paddy
plantation completed on 60pc land so far (ht
19/07/2022)
Dozens
of civil servants caught on the wrong side of
the law (ht 27/06/2022)
Size
of govt employees to be reduced by 10% (kh
09/06/2022)
Massive
transfers and appointments ahead of local polls
(kh 02/04/2022)
Taskforce
recommends to limit Secretary post to 45 to 48 :
Urges to abolish 24 to 27 secretary posts
(kh 15/03/2022)
Nepal’s
uncivil servants : Making the bureaucracy more
efficient faces bureaucratic hurdles, by
Bimala Rai Paudyal (nt 11/03/2022), Abysmal
public service : A people-friendly government
agency is something long overdue in Nepal
(kp 14/03/2022)
Been
to government offices? Affixed stamps on papers?
Do you know why? No one knows; even officials
are perplexed. It is prescribed in a law dating
back to 1963, by Anup Ojha (kp 10/03/2022)
Revamp
Federal Civil Service, by Khagendra Prawaha
(rn 03/03/2022)
Government
offices in Baitadi district grapple with
employee shortage : Public offices in Baitadi
are functioning under acting chiefs as employees
don’t want to be posted to the remote district,
by Tripti Shahi (kp 05/02/2022)
Implement
e-audit system : MoFAGA (ht 26/12/2021)
Nepal's
e-governance pipe dreams : An automated system
will make the stream of illegal income dry up
for politicians and bureaucrats, by Achyut
Wagle (kp 07/12/2021)
Govt.
Transfers 1,613 Civil Servants (rn
07/12/2021)
Civil
Service In A Quandary, by Mukti Rijal (rn
04/11/2021)
536,617
applications for government jobs in fiscal
2020-21 (ht 25/10/2021)
Province
2 on top again with highest number of civil
service job applicants : Official attribute the
high numbers to the policy of inclusion
and relatively large population of the province,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 19/10/2021)
Civil
Service Day : An Occasion To Recognise Value,
by Shyam Prasad Mainali (rn 07/09/2021)
7
joint secys recommended for promotion in four
vacant posts (kh 30/06/2021)
Need
Of Reforming Bureaucracy, by Khilendra
Basnyat (rn 27/04/2021)
10-year
strategic plan for responsive public
administration formulated (ht 18/04/2021)
Public
Service Commission sans officials, by Milan
Dahal (kh 25/03/2021)
Enhance
Competence Of Civil Servants, by Hira
Bahadur Thapa (rn 05/03/2021)
Civil
Service Bill In Limbo, by Mukti Rijal (rn
25/02/2021)
Civil
Service, Politics And Politicians, by Mukti
Rijal (rn 28/01/2021)
More
than 93,000 take civil service exams (ht
04/01/2021)
18
including CDOs transferred, Niraula is new
Lalitpur CDO (kh 18/12/2020)
Why
is the bureaucracy so inept? The pace of
decentralisation is slow, and the administrative
culture is not performance-oriented., by
Shankar Man Singh (kp 20/11/2020)
Where
is the public administration? Nepali
administrators, except a few, engage more in
self-serving acts than public service, by
Dinesh Pant (kp 10/11/2020)
PSC
Postpones All Written Examinations Until Further
Notice (ht 19/10/2020)
MoCTCA
to propose two-day leave in a week (ht
25/09/2020)
Spotlight
On Civil Administration, by Mukti Rijal (rn
24/09/2020)
Centralised
Bureaucracy In Nepal, by Mukti Rijal (rn
26/03/2020)
127
civil servants recruited by PSC given no place
by local units, by Ashok Dahal (rep
19/02/2020)
Intelligence
department announces vacancies but officials
have security concerns: Officials are especially
concerned about the doing away of covert
operatives, which forces them to buy
intelligence on a piecemeal basis, by Anil
Giri (kp 05/01/2020)
‘Financial
autonomy must for PSC’: ‘New bill should also
ensure administrative autonomy’ (ht
27/12/2019)
The
National Governance Survey, by Kushal
Pokharel (rn 21/12/2019) [see Nepal
National Governance Survey 2017/18 by Nepal
Administrative Staff College]
Optimism
Over Social Service Fund, by Uttam Maharjan
(rn 08/12/2019)
Province
2 tops in government job applications, but
response from women remains poor: Officials and
experts say higher illiteracy among women is
responsible for poor applications, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 25/11/2019)
Public
Service Commission recommends around 180
officers for local level: It plans to complete
the recruitment process by December-end, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 25/11/2019)
House
panel raises retirement age to 60, by Roshan
S. Nepal (ht 15/11/2019)
Working
across boundaries: Public service organisations
have been changing from a hierarchical structure
to a network structure, by Parshu Ram
Bhattarai (kp 04/10/2019)
Many
local units leave their employees high and dry:
Staffs have not been paid since the beginning of
the current fiscal year due to the failure to
present budget and dispute among elected
representatives, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
04/10/2019)
Provinces
are still stuck in slow gear in forming public
service commissions: Delay in forming
institutional setup may hamper recruitment of
staff at provinces and local level through the
provincial commissions, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 30/09/2019)
Civil
servants in Myagdi deprived of ‘mountain
district’ benefits, by Ghanshyam Khadka (kp
12/09/2019)
Non-compliant
civil servants risk losing jobs: Pandit (ht
06/09/2019)
Bureaucracy:
Time to be fastidious, by Kartika Yadav (ht
02/09/2019)
Retired
government employees see a rise in pensions
thanks to salary hike of incumbent staff:
Government may have to spend additional Rs1.3
billion to cover increased pay, Pension
Management Fund says, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 21/08/2019)
‘Mentally
ill’ civil servants seek transfer to federal
govt offices (rep 12/08/2019)
Applying
for a driving licence: You will understand why
they call it an online system when they make you
stand in endless lines, by Jagadish Prasad
Bist (kp 11/08/2019)
Public
servants need incentives, not punishment:
Current proposals in the Federal Civil Service
Bill will not lead to better service delivery,
by Shyam Dahal (kp 30/07/2019)
Hundreds
protest against FPSC’s job notice (ht
17/07/2019), Recruiting
for PSC vacancies gets thorny as protests turn
aggressive, by Ashok Dahal (kp 18/07/2019),
SRC
continues protest against FPSC (ht
19/07/2019), NCP
lawmakers criticise FPSC members (ht
19/07/2019), Despite
protests, Public Service Commission continues
exams to hire staff for the local level:
Protesters have said the vacancy notice is
against the principle of inclusion, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 21/07/2019)
Is
Two-day Weekend Practical?, by Kamal
Parajuli (rn 15/07/2019)
Staff
transferred to Province 3 blame government for
not keeping its promise: Employees have started
to make requests to return to units under the
federal government, by Subash Bidari (kp
11/07/2019)
Everything
you need to know about Public Service Commission
vacancy notice—and the controversy surrounding
it, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 09/07/2019)
Govt’s
employee adjustment process discriminatory, says
LLEUN (ht 04/07/2019)
SC
clears way for recruiting 9,000 plus govt staff,
by Ananta Raj Luitel (rep 02/07/2019), Public
Service Commission says its recruitment drive on
course after court order: The top court has
refused to issue an interim order to halt
the process, but questions over principle
of inclusion remain, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 03/07/2019), 400,000
apply at PSC for vacancies at local units
(rep 03/07/2019)
In
the name of merit: It needs emphasising that
merit isn’t inherited with the DNA of a person
despite claims to the contrary, by CK Lal
(kp 26/06/2019)
Government
employees desert provincial and local
governments after adjustment: Karnali Province
faces a precarious situation of losing services
of most of the employees at its local units,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 23/06/2019)
MPs
demand Public Service Commission uphold
inclusion and revoke vacancy notice: The
commission has defended its call as being based
on solid legal ground but lawmakers argue
that it contradicts the spirit of the
constitution, by Binod Ghimire (kp
18/06/2019)
Local
units suffer as federal and provincial
governments spar over staff hiring: Municipality
and rural municipality representatives say lack
of employees has affected service delivery,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 16/06/2019)
‘PSC
has to honour parliamentary panel’s directives’,
by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 16/06/2019)
Parliamentary
panel directs government to terminate staff
recruitment processLawmakers ask government to
manage local units’ workload by hiring contract
staff until permanent hirings, by Tika R
Pradhan (kp 11/06/2019)
Parliamentary
committee for stalling disputed staff
recruitment process State affairs and good
governance committee plans to meet Minister
Pandit on Monday, by Tika R Pradhan (kp
08/06/2019), Lawmakers
on SAC want vacancies at local units to be more
inclusive (rep 08/06/2019)
Furore
over PSC decision: ‘Ad for recruitment of
employees in local bodies not inclusive enough’
(ht 02/06/2019), Abide
by constitution: The provincial Public Service
Commission would have been the best way to hire
employees for the local levels (ht
03/06/2019), Move
to hire staff for local units irks provincial
governments: Province representatives say such
actions are against the spirit of federalism,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 04/06/2019), Civil
servants reluctant to serve provincial and local
governments lodge complaints, by Arjun
Poudel (kp 04/06/2019), How
the inclusion policy will be affected in the
staff recruitment drive at the local level,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 04/06/2019)
Civil
servants reluctant to go to Karnali: Only one-third of
the adjusted employees have reported to duty so far,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 29/05/2019)
Public
Service Commission starts process to hire 9,000
employees for local level: Local governments
have been facing staff crunch, which is
affecting service delivery, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 26/05/2019)
Civil
service
adjustment—completed in paper, not in practice:
Thousands of civil servants yet to
report to their designated duty
stations, by Anil Giri (kp 28/04/2019)
The
colours of us: Reserved quotas have had a
positive impact in maintaining diversity at the
workplace, by Deepak Thapa (kp 04/04/2019)
Civil
servants adjustment process completed, says
Minister Pandit: Deputation of 137,614 civil
servants approved, by Sanjaya Lama (kp
29/03/2019)
Recruitment
and
retirement age of provincial, local staff
proposed to be same as federal staff: Officials
say draft of law forwarded to Ministry of
Federal Affairs for feedback, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 10/03/2019)
Adjustment
of civil servants likely to take two more weeks,
by Jagdishor Panday (ht 24/02/2019)
Top
bureaucrats
are getting shuffled due to conflicts of
interest: No one knows which secretary is in the
line of fire next, a senior official says,
by Anil Giri (kp 23/02/2019)
Bill
on
civil servants’ transfer passed: Lets centre
appoint provincial, local level govt top staff;
Bill’s provision states that this is a stopgap
measure, by Jagdishor Panday (ht
16/02/2019), Adjusted
civil servants may return to federal level via
promotion (rep 16/02/2019), More
reservation quotas sought for ethnic groups,
by Jagdishor Panday (ht 19/02/2019) [The text of the bill
provides for a reduction!]
No
party
politics: Only an apolitical, competent and
pro-public civil service will serve the interest
of the country and the people (ht
13/02/2019)
Bill
on civil servants’ transfer against federalism,
say lawmakers (ht 09/02/2019)
Reluctant
Bureaucracy, by Mukti Rijal (rn 07/02/2019)
Adjustment
bill
provision concerns civil servants: Employees say
barring them from work in federal government
hampers their career prospects, by Tika R
Pradhan (kp 03/02/2019)
Government
offices slow to act against errant civil
servants, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
26/01/2019)
Province
3 top choice of govt employees (ht
26/01/2019)
Allowance
provision must continue: Civil servantsEmployees
say if CIAA employees are entitled to
allowances, so are they, by Tika R Pradhan
(kp 24/01/2019)
Very
few interested in judicial service (ht
20/01/2019)
Over
70,000 civil servants apply for adjustment,
by Anil Giri (kp 16/01/2019), 77,034
govt staffers opt for adjustment as deadline
ends (ht 19/01/2019)
Govt
proposes to curtail PSC’s autonomy: Public
Service Commission office bearers seek
amendment to bill, by Rewati Sapkota (ht
12/01/2019)
The
number game: The Public Service Commission has
not been shying away from providing government
data, by Deepak Thapa (kp 10/01/2019)
Government
signs deal with official trade union, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 05/01/2019)
Civil
servants adjustment: SC summons govt over
ordinance provisions, by Jagdishor Panday
(ht 05/01/2019)
Government
doctors not to take part in adjustment process,
by Nayak Paudel (kp 04/01/2019), Govt
docs warn of intensifying protests (rep
04/01/2019)
Government,
agitating
civil servants fail to ink deal: Despite
reaching an understanding, the NC-affiliated
trade union doubtful of deputation of staff,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 03/01/2019), Govt
stalls bill after strong PSC objection, by
Ashok Dahal (rep 03/01/2019)
Door
‘open’
for adjusted staff to return to federal service
after promotion: Lower House endorses Civil
Servants Adjustment Ordinance, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 02/01/2019)
Government
staff
protest against ‘unfair’ ordinance: The
agitating civil servants demand that the
government amend the ordinance to ensure
their career growth, by Anil Giri (kp
01/01/2019)
Medical
fraternity
warns sternprotests: Eleven medical associations
have submitted a memorandum to Deputy Prime
Minister and Minister for Health and Population
Upendra Yadav, by Nayak Paudel (kp
30/12/2018)
Civil
Servants Adjustment Ordinance registered in
House amid staff protest, by Sanjaya Lama
(kp 27/12/2018)
Local
level
staff protest ‘unfair’ provisions: Law denies
promotion to local level employees recruited by
the erstwhile municipalities and VDCs during
recruitment, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
24/12/2018)
Guarantee
equal
career opportunity for all staff, suggest Indian
experts: Nepali officials advised to outlaw
trade unions in civil service. Firing suggested
for non-performing staff, by Suresh Raj
Neupane (kp 23/12/2018)
Work
in tandem: Government and bureaucracy must be
receptive to each other’s concerns (kp
21/12/2018)
Government
to
mull staff fears: Probability of providing civil
staff an option of transferring to federal
service through internal competition, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 20/12/2018)
Government
‘to issue staff rejig notice in a week’ (kp
17/12/2018), No
VRS for civil servants (kp 17/12/2018)
20,000
staffers to fall short even after adjustment,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 16/12/2018)
The
Civil Servants Ordinance, by Kushal Pokharel
(rn 15/12/2018)
Excluded
groups
to get job quotas only during entry: Unlike the
Civil Service Act, the model law proposes such
reservation won’t be applicable for promotion,
by rithvi Man Shrestha (kp 20/11/2018)
New
law
proposes incentives for civil servants: Federal
government to issue ordinance in consultation
with the Public Service Commission, by Tika
R Pradhan (kp 13/11/2018) [A democratic state has to be ruled by
laws, not by ordinances!]
Women
in
civil services up by 8 percent: In the fiscal
year 2017-18, at least 20,334 women held various
positions in government offices-making it 23
per-cent of the civil service. Government
records show there are 87,753 civil servants
across the country, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 08/11/2018), Let
them in: Active representation of women in
bureaucracy cannot be ignored anymore (kp
08/11/2018)
Ordinance
to
allow ‘voluntary’ adjustment for civil servants:
The new provision is expected to speed up
the deployment of sending necessary human
resources to provinces and local levels
(kp 04/11/2018)
Reforming
the civil services: There should be no room for
mediocrity and complacency in our bureaucracy,
by Shyam Dahal (kp 01/11/2018)
Temporary
civil servants stage demonstration (ht
01/11/2018)
Temporary
civil servants protest inside Singha Durbar,
by Anil Giri (kp 31/10/2018)
16,939
persons join civil service under reservation
quota in eight years, by Jagdishor Panday
(ht 16/10/2018), Brahmins
and Chhetris land most government jobs, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 16/10/2018) [Bahuns with a population
share of 12.2% secure 33.39% of the jobs!]
PSC
submits annual report to President (kp
12/10/2018)
Government
employees threaten protest, by Jagdishor
Panday (ht 20/09/2018)
Draft
bill
expands chief secretary post eligibility:
Provincial and local Special Class civil
servants’ career prospects on Cabinet’s table
(kp 04/09/2018), Bill
bars local units from recruiting civil servants
(rep 04/09/2018) [Long
live the non-federal authoritarian central
state!]
Civil
servants criticise draft bill on federal
services, by Tika R Pradhan (kp 01/09/2018),
Bill
at Cabinet: No change in Civil servants’
retirement age: Finance Ministry had suggested
increasing the age
to 60 years considering the rising burden of
pension Joint military exercise payment for
retired employees (kp 03/09/2018)
Work
till you drop: Increasing retirement age is a
question that calls for proper deliberation
(kp 28/08/2018)
Plan
to transform civil services, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 15/08/2018)
Women
in
cilvil service: Why we lag behind; While the
decision making executive positions are strictly
male arena, women officers often get lost in the
labyrinthine of the social and cultural gender
constructs, by Smita Poudel (rep 05/08/2018)
Government
to revise retirement age for everyone on its
payrolls to 60 years, by Jagdishor Payday
(ht 01/08/2018)
Shifting
Bureaucratic Politics, by Dev Raj Dahal (rn
31/07/2018)
456
staff
withdraw from VRS: Officials say move aimed at
motivating staff to work as usual as there was
no decision on voluntary retirement (kp
29/07/2018)
Bureaucracy
in
new era: Our bureaucracy still carries vestiges
of Rana and Panchayat eras. It is in dire need
of sweeping overhaul to meet challenges of new
era, by Narayan Prasad Wagle (rep
29/07/2018)
Govt
mulls two options for temporary workers: Around
10,000 temporary civil servants work for various
govt agencies (kp 28/07/2018)
Govt
wants
‘more time’ to readjust 3-tier civil staff:
Ministry of Federal Affairs official says three
service laws mandatory to appoint staff (kp
21/07/2018)
34,000
temporary govt employees get three-month
reprieve, by Jagdishor Panday (ht
18/07/2018)
Civil
servants with disabilities object to proposal to
decrease reservation quota (rep 08/07/2018)
Reforming
Bureaucracy, by Mukti Rijal (rn 05/07/2018)
Flaws
of Reservation in Civil Service, by Umesh
Pokharel (rn 01/07/2018)
Job
charm of central level leaves local govts
understaffed (kp 30/06/2018)
Govt
to stop hiring joint secretaries thru open
competition, by Jagdishor Panday (ht
23/06/2018), Govt
bid to stop hiring joint secys thru free
competition slammed (rep 25/06/2018)
Govt
to bar officials from working for foreign
agencies upon retirement, by Jagdishor
Panday (ht 16/06/2018)
Panel
proposes transfer rule for civil servants
(kp 01/06/2018)
Over
7k govt staff apply to serve at local level
(kp 21/05/2018)
Allowance
distribution strategy issued (ht 20/05/2018)
Government
service: Panel suggests one-time limit for job
reservation, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
15/05/2018)
Trade
union asks govt to endorse Federal Civil Service
Act (rep 23/04/2018)
MoFAGA
standards on deputation ensure spouses are
allowed to work at same place (ht
18/04/2018)
Govt
employees no longer ‘attracted’ to TIA
immigration office (ht 18/04/2018)
Govt
gives staff 15 days to apply for local unit
posts (kp 17/04/2018)
Employees
should work as deputed: Minister Pandit (kp
16/04/2018)
Systematise
staff management, local levels told (ht
11/04/2018)
Govt
halts voluntary retirement scheme (kp
10/04/2018)
New
framework to make public services effective
(kp 28/03/2018)
Voluntary
retirement
scheme likely to get delayed: Officials say the
O&M survey would take at least six
months to complete, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 27/03/2018)
Ministry
cracks
down on ‘absent’ civil staff: Ministry of
Federal Affairs and General Administration will
stop salaries of staff refusing to work in
provinces (kp 25/03/2018)
The
Need of Bureaucratic Reforms, by Kushal
Pokharel (rn 24/03/2018)
'Defiant'
officials barred from reporting to their
erstwhile offices (rep 23/03/2018)
Ministries,
staff survey takes off from the centre (kp
22/03/2018)
Citizen-responsive
Bureaucracy, by Mukti Rijal (rn 22/03/2018)
Over
500 officials yet to report to their provincial
offices: Govt to wait for two more weeks before
starting legal action (rep 22/03/2018)
Prime
Minister Oli to tackle civil staff crisis at key
meeting (kp 21/03/2018)
Minister
plans revised VRS for civil servants: Lal Babu
Pandit says most civil staff should adjust
instead of retiring, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 20/03/2018), Govt
needs to amend law to stop voluntary retirement
(ht 20/03/2018), ‘We
will
not let capable staff leave’: Minister Lal Babu
Pandit says the government will not allow
capable staff to retire under VRS (kp
22/03/2018)
PM
warns of action against 'defiant civil servants'
(rep 18/03/2018), PM
orders civil staff to report for work (kp
19/03/2018), ‘77pc
staff report to respective offices’ (kp
22/03/2018)
Plug
the
gap: Government should carry out a study on the
requirement of civil servants and ask Public
Service Commission to start hiring (ht
28/02/2018)
Around
5,000 apply for voluntary retirement; Rs 10-12
billion required: Officials (rep 26/02/2018)
Fixing
bureaucracy: It is high time bureaucracy went
through some substantive reforms to make it more
robust and effective (ht 20/02/2018)
Computer
officers in govt offices seek entry into civil
services (ht 16/02/2018)
Voluntary
retirement scheme receives disappointing
response (rep 14/02/2018)
500
bureaucrats
deployed in all provinces: It will take one more
year to completely adjust all civil servants in
local, provincial and federal governments,
by Rewati Sapkota (ht 01/02/2018)
Bureaucracy
reforms: Taking Singha Durbar to grassroots,
by Sangram S. Lama (ht 30/01/2018)
‘Over
75 percent’ civil servants to go out of central
government, by Binod Ghimire (kp
21/01/2018), Only
25
percent of current civil servants should remain
at the Centre: As Nepal comes closer to a
federal form of government, new challenges have
emerged in the division of civil service into
three levels of government, by Kashi Raj
Dahal (kp 22/01/2018)
Many
civil servants unwilling to go to local levels,
by Rupesh Acharya (ht 05/01/2018)
Province
2 tops application and recruitment tables,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 28/12/2017)
Voluntary
retirement scheme to cut into govt treasury
(rep 24/12/2017)
Five-fold
increase in govt job applications (ht
25/11/2017)
Agenda
of reform: The ultimate aim of a managerial
civil service is to be able to provide traction
to good governance, by Madhukar SJB Rana and
Atul K. Thakur (kp 15/11/2017)
A
case for good governance: There have been five
Administrative Reforms Commissions but very
little reform, by Madhukar SJB Rana and Atul
K. Thakur (kp 17/10/2017)
Bill
on
civil servants adjustment endorsed: House panel
argues that it’s the duty of civil servants to
work where they are assigned (kp
07/10/2017), Law
passed for allocating civil servants under
federal setup (rep 07/10/2017)
Civil
servants seek promotion for adjustment innew
set-up, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 17/09/2017)
Civil
servants at the local level: Lawmakers call for
promotion of officials (kp 07/09/2017)
Civil
servant
adjustment: House unanimously passes bill
(kp 13/07/2017)
Online
registration
of personal events going up (kp 09/07/2017)
Female
applicants
outnumber males in govt openings (kp
16/06/2017)
Merit
is
the mantra: By implementing a number of
principles, the Public Service Commission has
managed to gain public support, by Kiran Raj
Sharma (kp 15/06/2017)
Government
to
deploy civil servants in 283 local level offices
(ht 03/06/2017)
Restructuring
bureaucracy:
On their merits; While promotions are important
career milestones, the demand that they be
‘automatic’ is undemocratic, by Thaneshwar
Bhusal (rep 23/05/2017)
Govt
proposes
halting fresh recruitment of civil servants for
a year, by Ashok Dahal (rep 28/04/2017)
Right
person,
right job: As Nepal moves to implement
federalism, civil service reform has become
crucial, by Sachchi Ghimire Karki (kp
21/04/2017)
Road
to
Inclusion: Progress in inducting women into
public service may be small, but in light of the
country’s dismal history of inclusivity, it is a
much welcome change, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 01/04/2017)
‘73
govt
staff have PR, citizenship of foreign
countries’: 34 have relinquished them and 16
have left service, byd Binod Ghimire (kp
01/04/2017), Govt
told
to hunt for civil servants holding PR in foreign
countries (ht 01/04/2017)
Deputing
staffers
to provincial, local governments challenging:
Government staff demand one level promotion to
join services at state, local levels, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 01/04/2017)
Dalits
in
civil service: They got in through seat quotas,
but they are no less capable and skilled than
others, by Pradeep Pariyar (kp 28/03/2017)
Civil
registration
online from April 14 in all districts: Listing
of personal events such as birth, death,
marriage, divorce and migration to be
streamlined (kp 28/03/2017)
MoFALD
sets
guidelines for personal incident registration:
People can now register birth, death, marriage,
divorce and migration in ward office (ht
16/03/2017)
Women
in
civil service: Women applicants ‘outwitting’ men
in PSC examinations, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 12/02/2017)
Proposal
seeking
to increase age limit for civil servants sent to
PSC (kp 12/01/2017)
Revamping
Bureaucracy, by Mukti Rijal (rn 12/01/2017)
Administrative
restructuring:
Existing staff will be rejigged before creating
new posts under fed set-up, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 05/01/2017)
19,213
officials
didn’t disclose property last fiscal (kp
04/01/2017)
Women
outperform men in PSC for job application
(rep 07/12/2016), More
women
apply for PSC exam (ht 08/12/2016)
High-level
admin
reform and monitoring report-2016: ‘Bureaucracy,
administration need immediate reforms’ (kp
06/12/2016)
Civil
servants
restricted from engaging in trade, business
(ht 28/11/2016)
Govt
staff caught at share queue during office hours
(rep 25/11/2016)
Empower
it: Under the decentralized federal structure,
we need additional human resources at office of
Chief Secretary, by Thaneshwar Bhusal (rep
16/11/2016)
Bureaucracy
2.0:
Nepal is still stuck with the centralized
bureaucratic practices ill suited for rapidly
changing technological landscape of the hyper
globalized digital world, by Subarna Shakya
and Bimal Pratap Shah (rep 14/11/2016)
Pensioned
govt staff rake in double moolah as consultants:
Clear legal provisions lacking, by Rudra
Pangeni (rep 27/09/2016)
Secy
shake-ups
stoke policy instability fears, by Rupak D.
Sharma (kp 14/09/2016)
Govt
not to allow perks, incentives in blanket
fashion: Rs 132 billion just for civil servant
salaries and allowances this fiscal year, by
Gyan P. Neupane and Sangeet Sangroula (rep
03/08/2016)
Nepalese
Bureaucracy: Need For Reform, by Hari Prasad
Shrestha (rn 15/07/2016)
Public
service
in Nepal: Attract bright young people, by
Shailendra Sigdel (ht 13/07/2016)
The
ten-to-five
world: The civil service has been politicised
resulting in blatant inefficiency and corruption,
by Niranjan Mani Dixit (kp 06/07/2016)
Reforming
bureaucracy:
Managerial civil service, by Madhukar SJB
Rana (ht 16/06/2016)
Fate
of
biometric national ID card project hangs in
balance: The French firm, Morpho Security,
selected to prepare the biometric cards is being
sold by its mother company Safran SA (kp
26/04/2016), Biometric
ID
gets House panel’s nod (kp 29/04/2016)
Rautahat
chiefs,
staffers caught playing truant (ht
19/04/2016)
Govt
takes
steps for reforms in bureaucracy (ht
10/04/2016)
71
officials
caught flouting rules (ht 27/02/2016)
TRC
proposes
perks for its staffers, by Lekhanath Pandey
(ht 26/02/2016)
An
aptitude
problem, by Gunjan Upadhyay (rep 26/02/2016)
Land
records
information mgmt system: Plan to take LROs
online in jeopardy (kp 24/01/2016)
Govt
decides
against dual facilities (kp 23/01/2016)
Changing
the
business of bureaucracy: For things to change,
Nepal’s bureaucracy would have to undergo
substantive reform—both structural and
behavioural, by John Narayan Parajuli (kp
23/01/2016)
11
CDOs
transferred (kp 14/01/2016)
Effective
service
delivery: Performance to outcome, by Mukti
Rijal (ht 07/01/2016)
No
roadmap,
timeline in MoGA plan (rep 02/01/2016)
Govt
promotes
nine joint secys to secretaries (ht
11/10/2015) [Thank god,
they are all male Tagadharis, once again!!]
Govt
jobs
in quota system: Plan to raise cut-off age
(kp 11/09/2015)
Smart
ID
cards to be issued by next year (ht
05/09/2015)
State
institutions
to bar staff from having foreign DV/PR, by
Lekhanath Pandey (ht 20/08/2015)
Amended
civil
service act: Less number of officials quit than
expected (ht 17/08/2015)
After
chief
secy, hunt intensifies for NRA CEO (kp
06/08/2015)
Get
it
over already: Bureaucratic failure has nothing
to do with nationalism or the level of loyalty
individuals have to their country, by
Bidushi Dhungel (nt 24/07/2015)
Of
bureaucrats:
The government needs to re-build the image of
civil servants by making them more responsible
to the people, by Jagadish C. Baral (kp
19/07/2015)
Uncivil
service:
It is unethical for civil servants to be absent
from their posts for years and for them to
curtail job opportunities for other Nepalis,
by Mukesh Khanal (rep 18/07/2015)
Civil
servants
with foreign PR face action (kp 15/07/2015)
Civil
servants
told to quit if ‘dissatisfied’ (ht
17/06/2015)
Attracting
Young Talents In Civil Service, by Kushal
Pokharel (rn 13/06/2015)
PSC
introduces
online application facility (ht 10/04/2015)
Promotion
games:
Our promotion system is neither transpoarent nor
cogent; Those with leadership traits are rarely
given opportunity, by Bimal Gautam (rep
25/03/2015)
Hearing
on
PSC members concludes (ht 23/03/2015)
Panel
starts
work to bring about administrative reforms
(ht 22/03/2015)
Govt
planning
to regulate incentives to civil servants, by
Tika R. Pradhan (ht 21/03/2015)
Govt
may
call off double shift system: Public response to
the newly introduced system was not encouraging,
claims Ministry of General Administration
(kp 17/03/2015)
House
sub-panel
nod to sack civil servants holding DV, PR
(kp 24/02/2015), Bill
enabled
to bar civil servants from foreign residency
(kp 26/02/2015)
Thousands
apply
at PSC for govt jobs as deadline nears (ht
02/02/2015)
Joint
secretary
promotion: 42 recommended for 16 secy posts
(kp 12/01/2015)
Imported
fertilisers
arrive with seam open: Around 1,000 urea sacks
are feared to have been damaged as the white
crystals have changed to black and red,
by Bhusan Yadav (kp 11/01/2015)
Populist
12-hr
shift running out of gear (ht 04/01/2015), 12-hour
shift
may come down to nine: NVC monitors find faults
in newly introduced timing, by Rajan Pokhrel
(ht 07/01/2015), Employees
irked
at 12-hour shift (ht 15/01/2015)
State
of
dysfunction: Nepal has failed to understand that
its public administration is a relic of the past
and built for an economy and society it never
had, by Mukul Sharma (rep 03/01/2015)
Govt
efforts
on to make bureaucracy more people-centric: Dozens
of recommendations by PSC still gathering dust,
by Santosh Ghimire (ht 01/01/2015) |