The parliamentary special committee set up to investigate the fraud in the Federal Civil Service Bill has come under intense political and administrative pressure. Contrary to the decision of the State Order and Good Governance Committee, there has been pressure on the committee not to impeach the person involved in putting the provision in the bill that breaks the provision of 'cooling off period'. Due to pressure, the committee has not been able to prepare the report even after the deadline.

The investigation committee concluded on July 17 that the "cooling off period" was not caused by human error but by intention. Political pressure was exerted through the chief whips of the ruling Congress and UML while the committee was gathering to make a decision on the arrest of the people involved and the recommendations for action. Earlier, Chief Secretary Ek Narayan Aryal, General Secretary of Parliament Padmaprasad Pandey and Government Secretaries, who had campaigned against 'Cooling of Period', raised questions on the justification and work of the committee and disobeyed when called for verification of statements. 

The House of Representatives set up a special investigation committee on June 23 after setting a period of 21 days to study the fraud in the Civil Service Bill. After the committee failed to work, it was extended for 7 days, which ended at 12 midnight on Sunday. But the committee held a meeting from 7 am on Monday to finalize the report as a continuation of the previous day's meeting. Even after meeting late at night, the committee has not reached a conclusion. 

According to a member of the committee, it was agreed on Monday to make the chairman of the state arrangement committee, Ramhari Khatiwada, who signed the report of the bill, morally responsible and the secretary of the committee, Suraj Kumar Dura, responsible according to law. Although the Congress maintained a stand that the Chairman Khatiwada should not be held responsible, he became flexible in the end. "In the case of the chairman, although we were positive about the cooling off period, we came to the conclusion that he should be morally responsible because he signed it in a careless manner," said a member of the committee.

In the special committee, the only thing left to do was to arrange the language regarding the chairman and secretary of the state arrangement committee. After that, even after the bill was passed with the provision of 'cooling off period', there was a discussion about what to do in the case of Chief Secretary Aryal and Parliament General Secretary Pandey, who led the campaign against it. There was a dispute between MPs of UML and other parties. UML had maintained the position that the language of high-ranking officials should be kept. 

MPs from other parties insisted that names should be given. "We said that the committee should write a decision stating that Chief Secretary Aryal, General Secretary Pandey and secretaries have acted against official conduct and dignity," said the MP.

The joint secretaries of the Ministry of Law and General Administration were working according to the orders of the Chief Secretary, General Secretary and Secretary, so the committee came to the opinion that it should be recommended to alert them. Another member of the Parliamentary Special Committee informed that after entering into the discussion about the staff, there was a dispute over the previously agreed matter. "As mentioned in the mandate, we were going to prepare a report with suggestions on who had what role in the error in the report of the civil bill, and what action to recommend to those involved, but it kept getting more and more complicated," he said. 

According to one of the members of the special committee, the members of the ruling party are of the position that they should prepare a moderate report by mentioning only procedural weaknesses. The opposition parliamentarians are in favor of recommending action by assigning the culprits, saying that doing so would raise questions about the justification of the formation of the committee. The special investigation committee formed under the leadership of Congress MP Jeevan Pariyar has two members each from the ruling Congress and UML, and one each from the opposition Maoists, RSVP and RPP.  The main concern of the Congress MPs in the

committee is towards their leader Khatiwada, who is the Chairman of the State Arrangement Committee, while the MPs of UML are seen defending the employees including Chief Secretary Aryal, General Secretary of Parliament Pandey. The committee could not finalize the report even after the meeting was held late on Monday night due to disagreement among the members. 

MPs from the ruling party are seen to be in favor of preparing the majority report if the MPs represented by the opposition party are not ready to prepare a moderate report. In such a case, the vote of the chairman of the committee will be decisive. The committee members are Sushila Thing, Narayan Acharya, Ishwari Gharti, Madhav Sapkota, Ganesh Parajuli and Roshan Karki. 

The State Law Committee unanimously decided that in section 82 (4) of the bill, 'Civil servants or employees who have resigned or retired from the service will not be appointed to any constitutional or government position before the completion of two years from the date of retirement.' After putting in the said 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 the House of Representatives has formed a committee to investigate the matter that has been retained in Article 82 (5A).