A cabinet meeting endorsed the upcoming census and issued a formal notice to this effect in line with the Statistics Act. The national census is carried out by the Central Bureau of Statistics every 10 years.[break]
Likewise, the cabinet meeting endorsed Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal´s visit to Cambodia to participate in the 6th General Assembly of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) to be held in Phnom Penh on December 2-3.
The meeting also endorsed the PM´s visit to the Belgian capital Brussels to participate in the 5th edition of European Development Days.
The caretaker government has meanwhile reshuffled high-rank Nepal Police officials. As per the cabinet decision, Additional Inspector General of Police (AIG) Arjun Jung Shahi has been transferred to the Metropolitan Police Commissioners´ Office (MPCO), Ranipokhari as its new chief. AIG Madan Bahadur Khadka has been transferred to police headquarters, Naxal.
Likewise, AIG Kalyan Kumar Timilsina, who has been accused of anomalies, has been transferred to the IGP´s office at police headquarters. AIGs Naresh Gurung and Prakash Kunwar have been deputed to police headquarters as well. AIG Kiran Gautam will now assume office as chief of the National Police Academy, Maharajgunj.
The cabinet also decided to promote Mahesh Singh Kathayat and Amrit Kaji Shrestha to the posts of technical Deputy Inspector Generals of Police.
The meeting decided to extend the tenures of Nepal Army Brigadier Generals Binoj Basnet, Purna Chandra Thapa and Umesh Kumar Bhattarai by three years. The cabinet decided to promote Brigadier General Pradip Bikram Rana to major general, and he will assume the post of co-coordinator of the National Security Council.
Similarly, the cabinet took a decision to confer on Indian Army chief General Vijaya Kumar Singh the title of honorary general of the Nepal Army. Singh is scheduled to visit Nepal in December.
The meeting decided to appoint Sarika Khetan, Bhola Bikram Thapa and Amir Pratap JBR honorary consul-generals of Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia respectively. It likewise decided to appoint Roger De Groin Nepal´s consul-general for Wellonia Province in Belgium.
The meeting agreed in principle on endorsement of the SAARC Environment Cooperation Convention and on tabling a bill in parliament related to the Higher Education Act 2067.
The cabinet has decided to extend the terms of the Freed Kamaiya Rehabilitation Commission and the high-level probe commission on forest encroachment, deforestation and community forests till mid-July 2011 and for two months respectively and to give continuity to the incentive-based system introduced for employees of the Civil Record Keeping Office.
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