1,594 office-bearers relieved of their posts after ordinance promulgates

Kathmandu. President Ram Chandra Poudel, on the recommendation of the Council of Ministers, issued the ‘Special Provision Ordinance on the Removal of Public Officials from Office-2083’.

A total of 1,594 political appointees who were appointed under various acts and structures will be relieved of their posts by the government led by Prime Minister Balen Shah.

KATHMANDU: The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has relieved 6 office-bearers including its executive director. Similarly, 4 positions of Kathmandu Valley Development Authority, 6 posts of Nepal Water Supply Corporation and 6 posts of Municipal Development Fund are also vacant.

Similarly, 10 members including the chairperson and members nominated under the Press Council Act-2048 BS and six members appointed under the Working Journalists Act, 2051 have been relieved of their posts.

The list also includes 3 officials of the Public Procurement Review Committee, 6 under the Competition Promotion and Market Protection Act and 5 officials of the Industrial Business Development Academy.

KATHMANDU: The government has relieved 10 officials of the Electricity Regulatory Commission and the Administrator of Nepal Railways.

The Balen government has also carried out a major ‘surgical strike’ on financial and regulatory bodies. The posts of 8 office-bearers of Employees Provident Fund and 3 of Citizen Investment Trust have been stripped. The government has relieved 15 office-bearers of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nepal (ICAN), one of the Securities Board of Nepal and three of the Deposit and Credit Securities Fund.

The ordinance has not spared even the top brass of the cooperative and investment sectors. Eight office-bearers appointed under the Cooperative Act, which regulates the crisis-hit cooperative sector, and 4 office-bearers of the Public-Private Partnership and Investment Board have been relieved of their posts.

Similarly, the posts of 1 office bearer of Special Economic Zone (SEZ), 2 under Insurance Act and 6 office bearers under Accreditation Act have also been stripped.

Four people appointed under the Nepal Administrative Training Academy Act-2039 and one person appointed under the Local Development Training Academy Act-2049 will be deployed. Similarly, 10 officials appointed under the Social Welfare Act, 2049 and 14 appointed under the Nepal Engineering Council Act-2055 will be relieved from their posts.

Ten posts appointed under the Foreign Employment Act, 2064 and three under the Nepal Trust Act-2064 will remain vacant. KATHMANDU: Five office-bearers of the Commission for Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act-2071 BS are to be relieved of their posts.