According to the decision of the Council of Ministers on Monday, Chandrakala Poudel, Chief Secretary of Koshi Province, has been given the responsibility of the Ministry of Federal Affairs.
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The Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration has been led by a female secretary for the first time.
According to the decision of the Council of Ministers on Monday, Chandrakala Poudel, the Chief Secretary of Koshi Province, has been given the responsibility of the Ministry of Federal Affairs. This is the first time that the administrative responsibility of the ministry has been given to a woman. She was promoted to the position of Secretary last April. She has become the 41st Secretary of the Federal Ministry.
The Council of Ministers has transferred secretaries of two provinces and two ministries. Madhesh Province Chief Secretary Madan Bhujel has been transferred to the Ministry of Land Management and Cooperatives. Land Ministry Secretary Kedarnath Sharma has been given the responsibility of Defense Secretary. Sharma was transferred to the vacant position after Defense Secretary Suman Raj Aryal was appointed as the Chief Secretary. After being promoted to the position of Secretary, Sharma had held the charge of the Chief Secretary of Koshi Province for more than one and a half years. Similarly, Federal Ministry Secretary Ravi Lal Panthi has been transferred to the National Planning Commission.
Meanwhile, women have got the opportunity to head three out of the six divisions of the Ministry of Federal Affairs. Parbati Sharma has been appointed as the head of the Ministry's Personnel Administration Division, Nita Aryal (Pokharel) as the head of the Planning, Development and Assistance Coordination Division, and Meera Acharya as the head of the Administration Reform Division. Personnel administration is considered important among the divisions. Since the transfer and promotion of employees are linked, the departmental minister chooses the division heads in that division. Nita and Parbati were given the responsibility by the previous federal minister Bhagwati Neupane after bringing them to the ministry.
