Gautam, the secretary of the Prime Minister's Office, says - 'They are investigating, there is nothing to say about this matter, leave it alone'
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The Chief Secretary and Secretaries did not go to verify the statements made by themselves in the meeting of the Parliamentary Special Committee formed to investigate the provision to break the system of 'cooling off period' made by the State Order and Good Governance Committee of the House of Representatives in the Federal Civil Service Bill.
Chief Secretary Ek Narayan Aryal, Legal Secretary Phaninder Gautam in the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers and Secretary Ravilal Panth of the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration were called on Sunday to sign the document in which the matter discussed by the Special Committee of Inquiry was written.
Regarding the 'cooling off period', the inquiry committee secretariat called Chief Secretary Aryal, Secretaries Gautam and Panth on Sunday. However, the committee sources have informed that Chief Secretary Aryal has switched off the phone and Secretary Panth has not received the phone. Committee sources informed that Secretary Gautam replied that he would not attend the committee. When asked about the fact that he was not present when the special investigation committee was called, Secretary Gautam said, 'They are investigating . There is nothing to say about this matter, I will leave it.' He declined to comment further .
Secretary Gautam was present in every meeting where the State Affairs Committee discussed the Civil Bill. He actively participated in lobbying against 'cooling of period' led by Chief Secretary Aryal and General Secretary of Parliament Padma Prasad Pandey.
The state law committee unanimously decided to include a provision in section 82 (4) of the bill that states that 'employees who have resigned or retired from civil service or other government service will not be appointed to any constitutional or government position before the completion of two years from the date of retirement'. After putting this provision, the provision that was already placed in the bill that 'not to be appointed to posts other than constitutional or diplomatic appointments and any other appointments made by the Government of Nepal' should have been removed. But after it was retained in Section 82 (5A), questions arose everywhere. After that, the House of Representatives formed a special investigation committee chaired by Congress MP Jeevan Periyar from the meeting held on June 23. Sushila Thing, Narayan Prasad Acharya, Ishwari Gharti, Madhav Sapkota, Ganesh Parajuli and Roshan Karki were members of the committee.
After the committee that was given a 21-day working period did not complete the work on time, the deadline was extended by 7 days . The added time ends on Sunday . The committee should verify and include the statements during report writing . Committee chairman Pariyar has claimed that preparations are being made to submit the report in the House of Representatives meeting on Monday.
