20 acting secys become officiating

KATHMANDU, APRIL 24: Twenty acting secretaries of the government became officiating secretaries again from Thursday after the government failed to confirm them as secretaries by Thursday, the legal deadline for their promotion. [break]



The Civil Service Act requires the government to promote acting secretaries to the post of secretary within six months and failure to do so means the acting secretaries return to their previous post of joint secretary.



In a major reshuffle in the bureaucracy, the Maoist-led government had promoted 21 joint secretaries to acting secretary on October 25, 2008. One acting secretary has retired in the meantime.



Sources at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers told Republica that the government on Thursday handed letters to all 20 senior bureaucrats to return to their respective offices as officiating secretaries.



The bureaucrats who became officiating secretaries again include Pratap Kumar Pathak, Yuvaraj Bhusal, Kishor Thapa, Hariram Koirala, Keshav Kadel, Sushil Ghimire, Narayan Gopal Malegu, Dinesh Hari Adhikari, Ganesh Raj Joshi, Yagya Prasad Gautam, Suresh Kumar Verma, Nathu Prasad Chaudhary, Ram Swarup Sinha, Dr Dirgha Singh Bam, Dr Sudha Sharma, Dip Basnet, Rudra Kumar Shrestha, Ananda Prasad Pokharel, Binod Gyawali and Hari Prasad Rimal.

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