A report has been released calling secretaries' lobbying to remove 'cooling off period' as against official conduct.
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The Parliamentary Inquiry Committee has said that it is not appropriate for the Chief Secretary and Secretaries to protest against the 'cooling off period' provided in the Federal Civil Service Bill. In the report released by the committee on Tuesday, it is said that even though the chief secretary and secretaries are not directly involved in the cheating of 'cooling off period', it is not right to protest.
It is also mentioned in the report that Chief Secretaries lobbying with Lavalaskar to remove the provision of 'cooling off period' is against official conduct. "On the basis of the constitutional and legal provisions, lobbying in a group to remove the subject of 'cooling off period' placed in the bill passed by the parliamentary committee and the assembly cannot be considered official conduct of officials with defined responsibilities," the report states.
Chief Secretary and Secretary visited the leader's house to stop the arrangement of 'cooling period'. Under the leadership of Chief Secretary Ek Narayan Aryal, the incumbent secretaries met Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli at Singh Durbar and Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba at Budhanilkanth and continuously pressed to remove the provision.
In this regard, the inquiry committee's report says, In relation to the 'cooling off period' in the report on the bill passed by the State Order and Good Governance Committee, the Chief Secretary of the Government of Nepal, the then Secretary of the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, the Secretary of the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration, the Secretary (Law) of the Office of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers, even though there is no direct involvement regarding the error between subsections (4) and (5) of Section 82 of the Bill, indirectly on 2082.02.02 Regarding the issue of 'cooling off period' passed by the Good Governance Committee, it did not seem proper to appear in opposition in public.'
The report prepared by the 'Special Committee to Investigate Errors in the Report of the Federal Civil Service Bill' has been made public. It was made public after committee chairman and Congress MP Jeevan Pariyar submitted the report to Speaker Devraj Ghimire on Tuesday.
