Cancellation of authority on the basis of complaints given to junior and non-administrative service employees despite being senior
The Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration has revoked the financial and administrative authority of the Chief Administrative Officer of 23 Municipalities, long after the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority sent a letter of recommendation.
The municipality revoked the rights of junior and non-administrative employees on the basis of complaints that they were arbitrarily used as a substitute, despite being senior.
According to the ministry, the authority of the chief administrative officer has been taken away from Dhanushadham in Dhanusha, Kanchanrup in Saptari, Sirha in Sirha, Lohpatti and Bhagaha in Mahottari, Mahagadhi in Bara, Pokhria in Parsa, Chedagad in Jajarkot, Mangalsen in Acham and Mahakali in Darchula.
Similarly, the financial and administrative rights of acting administrative officers working in Khotang's Diprung Chuichumma, Dhanusha's Aurhi and Mukhiyapatti Musaharnia, Sarlahi's Dhankaul and Brahmapuri, Bara's Savarna, Mugu's Soru and Khatyad, Humla's Tanjakot, Adanchuli and Simkot, Acham's Chowrapati and Bajhang's Durgathali Rural Municipality has been taken away.
In 3 out of 10 municipalities, employees of health and administration services were running acting administrative officers. Of the 13 village chief administrative officers, 8 were health service, one agricultural and four administrative service employees.
After municipalities and rural municipalities put pressure on the ministry to appoint employees of their choice and promote the juniors by pushing the seniors aside, the authority wrote a letter to stop such behavior. But the ministry was ignoring the authority's letter. Spokesperson and joint secretary of the federal ministry, Kali Prasad Parajuli, said that it took time to do the homework. Akhtiar's letter came. It took some time to implement while doing homework," he said.
The chief administrative officer at the local level should be from the post of the federal government under the administration service. The chief administrative officer is the officer in the rural municipality and the deputy secretary in the municipality.
Some municipal heads used to send back the chief administrative officer of the administration service sent by the federal ministry and give them to the sixth and seventh level employees who were promoted at the local level. The Ministry has been considering the seventh level as an officer of the administration service.
In some local levels, since the union cannot send employees, the municipal heads are forced to act as substitutes. Nimitta has also been given the right of administrative officer by the federal ministry. "How long the ministry, which gives and takes away the authority itself, can stick to this decision, cannot be estimated now," said an employee of the administration division of the ministry.
A deputy secretary of the ministry said that there is a problem in Khatanpatan because the employees do not want to go to Bikat local level and some local levels in Madhesh province. The ministry has not been able to send chief administrative officers to 247 local levels. They are being operated on behalf of the municipality.
