Acting Mayor of Kalyanpur Municipality, Rekha Kumari Yadav, said that the lack of a Chief Administrative Officer to handle financial and administrative work has added challenges to the implementation of the plan.
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The then Chief Administrative Officer of Lahan Municipality, Deputy Secretary Jayakant Jha, retired on April 26. After that, the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration sent Durga Prasad Bhurtel to Lahan.
The ministry had transferred Deputy Secretary Bhurtel on April 27. However, he, who works in the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation of the central government, has not yet appeared in the municipality. The municipality has stated that he has not yet appeared, even though he said he would appear soon.
Not only in Lahan, the newly sent administrative officers in four local levels of Siraha by the ministry have not yet appeared. Deputy Secretary Bishwarup Dahal, who was transferred as Chief Administrative Officer in Kalyanpur Municipality, is also still absent.
He was transferred by the ministry to the National Planning Commission on April 26. Similarly, Deputy Secretary Mohan Niraula, who was sent to Dhangadhimai Municipality, has also not appeared in the municipality yet.
Niraula, who works in the Ministry of Youth and Sports, was transferred to Dhangadhimai by the ministry on Chaitra 19. Similarly, Deputy Secretary Rupnarayan Khatiwada, who was sent by the Ministry of Health to Golbazar Municipality, is also absent till now.
Mahesh Prasad Chaudhary, the mayor of Lahan Municipality, complained that the financial and administrative work has been affected due to the absence of the municipal administrative officer. 'We have reached the end of Ashar, at this time the plans will have to be carried out at a rapid pace,' Chaudhary told Kantipur, 'However, due to the absence of an administrative officer, the main work has come to a standstill.'
Rekha Kumari Yadav, the acting mayor of Kalyanpur Municipality, also complained in a similar way. She said that the lack of a chief administrative officer to conduct financial and administrative work has added challenges to the implementation of the plan. 'This is the time to do the work, it would have been better if he had come soon,' she said.
Despite the transfer of administrative officers by the ministry, the ministry's secretary, Chandrakala Poudel, has refused to speak on the issue of their non-appearance till now. When the phone did not pick up, she sent a message for a response, saying 'Hello sir, thank you'.
