Not only the Office of the Chief Minister and the Council of Ministers and the Office of the Provincial Chief, but most ministries are run by acting secretaries.
What you should know
Most of the ministries of the Madhesh provincial government are run by acting secretaries. The chief secretary of the provincial government is the acting secretary of most of the ministries in Madhesh.
The Office of the Chief Minister and the Council of Ministers and the Office of the Provincial Chief are also run by the Acting Secretary. Joint Secretary Ram Kumar Mahato is the Acting Chief Secretary of the Madhesh Provincial Government. Mahato, who is the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, has also been assigned the responsibility of the Acting Provincial Secretary.
After the transfer of the then Chief Secretary of Madhesh Province, Madan Bhujel, in last Kartik, Jayakumar Ghimire, who was given the responsibility of the Acting Chief Secretary, was also transferred in the first week of Poush. After this, the Office of the Chief Minister and the Council of Ministers has stated that Mahato has been assigned the responsibility of the Acting Chief Secretary this week.
In the Office of the Chief Minister and the Council of Ministers, the Secretary is assigned the responsibility of the Chief Secretary and four Joint Secretaries are assigned the responsibility of the Secretaries. However, in the Chief Minister's Office, only Yamendra Upadhyay is in charge of the Secretary of the Administration Division. The federal government has assigned the responsibility of secretary to the state as chief secretary and joint secretary to the secretary.
The office of the Madhesh Province Chief has been running on the basis of an acting secretary for a long time. Shatrudhan Yadav has been in charge of the acting secretary in the office of the province chief for about two years. Chief Minister Krishna Prasad Yadav has currently held the responsibility of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Communications and Law with himself, while Ganesh Nayak has been assigned the responsibility of acting secretary in that ministry. Nayak was assigned the responsibility of acting on Kartik 25, replacing Bimal Rijal, who was transferred from the position of secretary in Kartik last year.
Similarly, there is also an acting secretary in the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Development. The Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Development, which mobilizes the largest budget of the Madhesh Province government, about 16 billion rupees, is not only running without a minister, but also on the basis of an acting secretary for two years. It has also been two years since Sanjay Prasad Sah was assigned the responsibility of acting secretary in that ministry. The official website of the ministry still lists the name and photo of the previous Chief Minister Saroj Kumar Yadav (Mahottari) as a minister.
The Ministry of Energy, Irrigation and Drinking Water of the Madhesh Province Government also has an acting secretary. Ram Kumar Khanga has also been handling the responsibility of the ministry for the past two years. The Ministry of Education and Culture has also been running under the responsibility of an acting secretary for more than two years. Dilip Kumar Thakur has been assigned the responsibility of acting secretary in the ministry. Similarly, the Ministry of Sports and Social Welfare also has an acting secretary. Ranjit Kumar Yadav was brought in as the acting secretary of the ministry last Jestha.
Chief Minister and Council of Ministers Spokesperson Yamendra Upadhyay said that since there are no higher-level secretaries, acting secretaries have been assigned to most ministries. "The federal government will transfer secretaries," he said, "and when the higher-ups arrive, the incumbents will automatically step down."
However, the Madhesh Province government has Secretary Yubaraj Adhikari in the Ministry of Labor and Transport, Secretary Jibanath Poudel in the Ministry of Forest and Environment, and Secretary Umesh Dahal in the Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives. Pramod Yadav was assigned the responsibility of Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Population on Tuesday.
