After the agreement between the employees' union and the ministry, the employees have resumed work in Lumbini after lifting the long-standing lockdown.
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With various demands, the workers in Lumbini, the birthplace of Buddha, have withdrawn their protest for a month. Lumbini Development Fund Employees Union opened the lock on various branches of the fund office on Monday after 27 days. However, the lock on the accounting branch has not been opened.
The meeting held in Lumbini under the chairmanship of the employee union vice president Salauddin Muslim decided to open the lockdown imposed in the office as the talks at the Ministry of Tourism in Kathmandu are leading to positive results. Immediately after the meeting, in the presence of Fund Senior Administrative Officer Chudamani Bhattarai, the staff union officials opened the lock. After opening the lake, the employees celebrated by distributing sweets. Some employees have started working in the office from today.
All employees will come to work as usual from Tuesday, according to the employees' union. Fund Information Officer Rajan Basnet said that they came to work from Monday after the lockdown was lifted. Sanuraja Shakya, the member-secretary of the fund, said that the regular work of the fund, which had been stopped for a long time, has started after the opening of the lockdown.
The employees' union started a protest program from 8th July and from 13th July locked the Lumbini Development Fund head office and stopped the work. Even when the work of the office was interrupted, for a long time, the high officials of the fund and the responsible officials stayed in Kathmandu. Later, as the pressure was increasing from all sides, the employees were called to Kathmandu for talks. 22 days after the start of the movement, the two sides held talks for the first time on July 30. 
A consensus draft was prepared in the talks between the 3-member committee formed by the Ministry of Culture under the coordination of Joint Secretary Suresh Suresh Shrestha and the staff union team on July 30 at the Ministry of Tourism in Singhdarbar. Both parties signed. Even though it was signed, the lockdown was continued for a long time because there was no basis of trust. Abdul Offa, president of the employees' union, said that the lockout was opened because the fund and the ministry are being careful in meeting the demands of the employees.
The reference to the demand that the employee union should get accrued leave, fund allowance and dearness allowance and that the positions of the employees under the service contract (O&M) should be accepted and made permanent is related to the Ministry of Finance. Likewise, regarding the demand that all the employees who are currently under service contracts should be filled through a limited competitive examination by revising the 079 staff regulations, a 5-member sub-committee with legal advisors has been formed under the coordination of Vice President Lyharkyal Lama. Fund Member-Secretary Sanuraja Shakya said that the sub-committee will send the amended regulations from the Ministry of Tourism to the Council of Ministers for approval. He said that it became easier because the Supreme Court also addressed the demand for expensive allowances held by the employees' union in a different context. He said that there has been an agreement between the employee union and the fund and the work has progressed a lot to fulfill the demand. Secretary Jitendra Yadav and member Abdul Ahal Khan, who went to Kathmandu for 
talks, returned to Lumbini on Sunday. President Abdul Offa is going to settle the paper process by speedily proceeding with his demands in the Ministry of Finance and Tourism while staying in Kathmandu. "We are aware that we will be forgotten," President Ofa said in a telephone contact, "That is why I am staying in Kathmandu."
According to member Abdul Ahad Khan, the staff union meeting held on Monday demanded that the 14 electric jeep vans in Lumbini should be given to the employees as a standard and that the accounting head of the fund should be transferred as he was seen to be irresponsible. That's why he claims that the lockdown imposed on the accounting branch has not been opened.
The agitation by stopping the administrative work is having a lot of negative effects in Lumbini. Due to the lack of cleanliness due to the employee movement, garbage is seen everywhere. There is no regularity of electricity. Rajan Basnet, information officer of the fund, said that there is a delay in making the annual policy and planning program of the current year's internal budget and the government's budget. Similarly, he said, due to the inability to proceed with the auction process, timber worth crores is rotting in the water and tendering for other development works is being delayed. Similarly, he said that the attitude of various suppliers and businessmen towards the fund is becoming negative when the payment of lakhs of funds for the Buddha Jayanti held last year was stopped.
