Due to the self-interest of the employees from the highest level of the civil service to the buyers rather than the parliamentarians, the discussion on the bill made to regulate the formation, operation and service conditions of the federal civil service has not reached a conclusion.

The sub-committee formed by the State Order and Good Governance Committee in conjunction with Congress MP Dilendra Prasad Badu failed to reach an agreement on all the disputed issues even in the discussion held till Wednesday evening. The sub-committee has not been able to give a decision on all the disputed issues due to different positions between government proposals, high-level employees and parliamentarians. Mainly: cooling period to be applied for retired employees for political appointment, 60 years age should be applied at once or gradually? Will you send a senior joint secretary or an additional secretary to the province? To determine the tenure of the additional secretary or not? There is still no agreement on such matters. It has been agreed that the matters of disagreement that could not be resolved in the sub-committee will be taken to the committee for decision.

In the sub-committee meeting, Federal Affairs Minister Rajkumar Gupta proposed a 'cooling period' of one and two years. The parliamentarians have disagreed with proposing a cooling period of one year for government and constitutional appointments and two years for working in international organizations. Members of the sub-committee Rajendra Pandey, Hitraj Pandey, Chanda Karki and other MPs have taken the stand that there should be a two-year cooling period for political appointments in all areas or for working in domestic and foreign organizations. All high-level employees are unanimous in reducing or not keeping the cooling period. 

Most of the parliamentarians seem to be unanimous in stopping this saying that there is an increasing tendency to set appointments in government or constitutional bodies without retiring. The high-level employees including the secretary are against the cooling period. The parliamentarians including Rajendra had said that they would write a 'note of dissent' if they tried to pass the government's proposal by reducing it by two years. The majority of MPs of the sub-committee are in favor of keeping the cooling period for two years. 

Some MPs from the ruling party are also in favor of keeping the cooling period for two years. They did not speak in the meeting. A member of parliament from the ruling party said, "Since there is no agreement on this issue, you should put your point in the committee." Several MPs suggested that it would be appropriate to send the senior joint secretary. A member of Parliament said that since the number of additional secretaries will be increased by sending additional secretaries to the province, there may be an arrangement to send only senior secretaries (twelfth level). It has been unanimously agreed that the employment period in the civil service should be 60 years. But there is no agreement on when to implement it. 

The government has proposed to apply the age of 58 for one year and 60 years from the next year, after which the age of 58 will be automatically retired. Some employees have pressed to apply 60 years at once. It has been seen that if it is implemented at once, if those who are now 58 years of age stay in the service for two more years, the moral development of the lower level employees will stop and it will also affect the filling of public service positions. 

If the bill is passed before June 2082, those who have reached the age of 58 will retire this year. Those who reach 59 in 083 will be eligible. Similarly, from 2084, there is a government proposal that those who have reached the age of 60 will retire continuously.

Chief Secretary and Secretary's tenure reduced

It has been agreed in the sub-committee to reduce the tenure of the Chief Secretary and Secretary. Chairman of the sub-committee, Ramhari Khatiwada, informed that it was agreed to make the chief secretary 2 years and the secretary 4 years. The MPs were of the opinion that the secretary should be appointed for three years. But 4 years have been done with everyone's consent. Currently, the chief secretary has 3 years and the secretary has 5 years. It has been agreed to hire an additional secretary and reduce the number of secretaries. Out of the 52 departments in the country, there will be more than 27. Many additional secretaries will be placed in the department, while the existing posts in six ministries will be reduced to one secretary. There will be one additional secretary in the ministry which currently has two secretaries. The MPs of the sub-committee have informed that the post of secretary is currently 70 people, but preparations are being made to increase it to 50 people.