The committee has said the services can be governed by separate regulations according to the nature of services. The committee has recommended that the civil service be renamed as public service (Sarwajanik Sewa) in the new constitution.
A subcommittee formed under the committee that submitted a report at a meeting on Sunday also recommended that there should be three administrative tiers -- central, provincial and local.
As per the concept, the Public Service Commission (PSC), a federal constitutional body, at the central level will be responsible for selecting employees for the central government. And the PSC at a province will select employees for the province and local level. Under the existing system, the PSC at the center is the only body responsible to select civil servants for all central as well as local levels.
The CA members in the committee have proposed that the umbrella body-- Public Service-- be entrusted with selection process of employees for public enterprises, government teachers and be given authority to make selection of police personnel as well both in the center and in provinces.
"There is almost consensus on this provision in the committee," said CPN-UML CA member, Krishna Prasad Sapkota, adding, "I personally suggest that the PSC in the center should be given authority even for the selection process of Nepal Army personnel." It can be done efficiently by making arrangement of separate expert units for the selection process, he added. In the existing system, the PSC (Lok Sewa Aayog) is responsible only to select civil servants.
Naresh Bhandari, who headed the subcommittee, said the spirit of the report is to devolve the authority downwards.
The committee members have also proposed that members in the constitutional bodies be appointed independently unlike the present system of transferring civil servants to such bodies. Sapkota said that a civil servant sent to a constitutional body cannot work effectively. "For instance if a civil servant is sent to the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), the person cannot take bold actions against an official who is senior to him/her, for instance a secretary or chief secretary," Sapkota explained. The proposed systems are yet to be finalized by the committee.
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