The parliamentarians of the sub-committee formed by the State Order and Good Governance Committee have come close to agreeing to create a new post of Additional Secretary in the Bill on the formation, operation and service conditions of the Federal Civil Service. In the discussion held by the sub-committee with the Public Service Commission on Sunday, it was agreed in principle that the post of additional secretary should be kept in the Civil Act.

Sub-committee coordinator Dilendra Prasad Badu has informed that Public Service has also suggested to keep additional secretary. If the bill is passed, there will be fourteen levels in the civil service, including additional secretaries. The sub-committee discussed with the commission by identifying 14 points that should be theoretically clear from the provisions mentioned in the bill. Commission officials including Chairman Madhav Prasad Regmi made suggestions to the sub-committee. The Commission has been called by the State Order Committee twice before and taken its advice. The subcommittee convened for the first time.  According to coordinator Badu, based on the recommendations of the

commission, a tiered system will be arranged in the local and state levels of the civil service and there will be both ranks and levels in the union. In the proposal of the Bill, the gazetted specific categories are called thirteenth and fourteenth tier. Joint Secretary is placed in eleventh and twelfth level while Deputy Secretary is placed in ninth and tenth level. It is proposed to give the charge of Additional Secretary to Senior Joint Secretary.  

The gazetted third class is placed in the sixth, seventh and eighth levels. If the provisions mentioned in the bill are passed by the Parliament, the Chief Secretary will be the fourteenth level and the secretary will be the thirteenth level officer. Additional Secretary will also be of special rank. 

The parliamentarians had already agreed that the government employees of all three levels should be kept in a layered manner. The Public Service Commission had suggested that ranks should be kept in the union due to some provisions mentioned in the constitution. "After the commission suggested that it is not possible to make only tiers in the association, both provisions will be kept," says coordinator Badu, "and which category will be tiered".

will be separated.' He says that coordination with provincial and local levels will be easier if the relationship between levels and categories is made clear in the law. The provincial and local levels have already implemented the tiered system.