Among the seven promoted officers, only four are graduates while other three have passed only intermediate level. The graduate candidates promoted to under secretary are -- Hridaya Ram Maharjan, Bansi Raj Poudel, Ghanindra Raj Chimauriya and Sudarshan Kuinkel.
Those nongraduates who are promoted to the same post are Bal Krishna Suwal, Shanta Acharya and Manoj Kumar Giri.
The secretariat recently announced vacancies for six under secretary posts. Altogether 18 candidates from the secretariat applied for the post. Of them, 14 officers applying for the post were nongraduates. They were earlier promoted to the post of section officer from nayab subba (non-gazetted first class) position.
At a meeting on Monday, members of the committee formed to look into the matter took the decision, said secretary of the secretariat Krishna Prasad Pandey, who is member-secretary in the promotion committee.
The Parliament Secretariat Act has made it mandatory that any employee aspiring to apply for any gazetted post must have served for five years in the immediate junior position.
The Parliament Secretariat is an autonomous body.
The Civil Service Act, however, has a mandatory provision that any candidate applying for the post of under secretary must have a master´s degree along with five years of working experience in a recognized institution.
Some officials at the secretariat were against the idea of promoting nongraduates to the gazetted second class position saying that employees working with the Parliament Secretariat, where laws are formulated, should be more efficient than the employees in the Civil Service.
When asked if their promotion to undersecretary also paves their way even for elevating them to the post of secretary, Pandey said, "I can´t say now. Leave it for the future."
Earlier, in a similar case, the committee members had rejected applications from nongraduate officers who applied for the post of under secretary. Some officers, whose applications had been rejected last time, did not apply this time thinking that the same rule will be followed this time too.
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