KATHMANDU, April 8: About 150 amendment proposals have been registered on the Bill, 2080, which was made to make provisions regarding the formation, operation, and conditions of service of the Federal Civil Service. As the time for amendments was until Sunday, the Parliament Secretariat said that 150 amendments had been made by 5 PM on Sunday.
The bill was considered in the meeting of the House of Representatives last Wednesday and the proposal was approved. After the motion to consider the bill was passed, lawmakers were given time to register amendment proposals. Due to many amendments, the Parliament Secretariat has not yet prepared the integrated details of the amendments.
Bill bars local units from recruiting civil servants
In the bill, there is a provision that the chief secretary of the provincial government will be a federal civil service post. It has been arranged that the post of the secretary of the provincial ministries will be a 12th level civil service post. A provision has also been made in the bill that the chief administrative officer of the local governments will be appointed by the federal level for 10 years after the law is promulgated. Many lawmakers have put amendments to this matter. At the request of the provincial employees, the parliamentarians have registered the amendment proposals.
The provision to increase the service age of employees from 58 to 60 years is included in the bill. The pension liability of the government has been reduced somewhat. The provision of pension conditions and age limits for civil servants who have completed 55 years of age to take voluntary retirement has also been kept in the bill. The parliamentarians have proposed to maintain the current status of service entry for women and for men in amendments. Currently, the age limit to enter civil service is 40 years for women and 35 years for men. There has been an amendment to the provisions that employees should be promoted to the federal level, employees of one service sector should be allowed to take exams in another service sector, etc.
During the theoretical discussion on the bill, the parliamentarians suggested that the trade unions should be made free of politics to build a result-oriented administration mechanism, the transfer and promotion of employees based on performance evaluation should be made regular and predictable, and the transfer and promotion of employees based on discretion should be stopped, skill development should be prioritized and rewards and punishments should be arranged.
However, when the amendment proposals were filed, most of the MPs filed the amendments only based on the concerns of the civil servants. The local and provincial employees came to the central level and pressured the parliamentarians to amend their rights, stating that the bill did not do justice to the employees who were adjusted to the local and provincial levels. This bill was registered in the House of Representatives on March 4.
