KATHMANDU, April 14: While protests are taking place all over Kathmandu, civil servants are also preparing to join the movement. They have warned that if the Federal Civil Service Act is not introduced immediately, they will take to the streets in protest.
According to Uttam Katuwal, the acting senior vice president of the Nepal Civil Servants Union (NCSU), office bearers from the Nepal Civil Employees Organization, NCSU, Nepal National Civil Servants Organization (NNCSO), Unified Government Employees Organization and the Independent Civil Servants Organization met with Speaker Devraj Ghimire on Sunday, urging him to bring the Act without delay.
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“The Speaker said he would take initiative to bring the act immediately. We told him we can't wait much longer,” Katuwal said.
On Sunday, six civil servant organizations jointly held a press conference in Kathmandu, demanding that the government immediately introduce the Federal Civil Service Act.
During the press conference, the leaders of the employee organizations put forward several demands. They stated that employees who have completed five years of service in any position should be granted a one-level promotion. Similarly, those with ten or more years of service should receive a two-level or one-grade promotion based on their performance evaluation from the past five years, in order to ensure rank alignment.
They also demanded that for promotions within the technical services, the educational qualifications or training required at the time of entry into the service should be considered as the basis for promotion.
Similarly, they have demanded that temporary and contract-based employees should be made permanent through a limited competition process without applying the age limit once; those who cannot be made permanent should be retired with benefits equivalent to permanent employees; and if appointments need to be made on a contract basis, they should be done from the list of candidates shortlisted by the Public Service Commission.
