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) |