KATHMANDU, May 20: The liaison officers (LOs) who are deployed for managing mountain expeditions are hired on the basis of their access to ‘higher-ups’. The private secretaries of the Minister of Tourism, various party-affiliated employees' unions, officials of organizations, and the employees of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) go to the mountain climbing time and again as liaison officers. But the employees who do not have links with powerful people do not get the opportunity even after completing five-six years of training to become a liaison officer.

KATHMANDU, May 12: There is a growing tendency among government employees not to appear in the offices assigned/transferred by the government, while working in the same previous office for years.

KATHMANDU, May 9: The rhetoric ‘Singha Durbar in every village’ in the new federal setup still seems to be a far cry from reality.

KATHMANDU, April 23: The federal government has sent two letters to the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) saying that the metropolis has not fulfilled even the minimum responsibility in terms of waste management.

KATHMANDU, April 20: The talks held between the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) and the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) on Wednesday to resume collecting garbage from Singha Durbar, Prime Minister’s Baluwatar residence and the Presidential residence ended without any conclusion. This has increased the conflict between the federal government and the Kathmandu Metropolis.

KATHMANDU, April 13: The waste generated daily from the main administrative center of the country, Singha Durbar premises, is being dumped in the garden in front of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). Kathmandu Metropolis has stopped collecting garbage from Singha Durbar, Prime Minister's Residence Baluwatar and the President's Office for the last five days.

KATHMANDU, April 12: Garbage has not been cleared from the main administrative center of the country, Singha Durbar, for four days. There is a foul stench inside the main administrative center of the country because of the daily accumulation of around five tons of garbage which hasn’t been picked up for the past three days.

KATHMANDU, April 1: After a long tug-of-war, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal reconstituted the cabinet on Friday. The reshuffled cabinet has 17 members. Although Dahal was supported by 10 parties, only seven of them including Maoist Center, Nepali Congress, Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP), CPN (Unified Socialist), Loktantrik Samajwadi Party (LSP), Nepal Samajwadi Party (NSP) and Nagarik Unmukti Party joined the government.

KATHMANDU, March 22: Officials of the National Dalit Commission, Tharu Commission and Janjati Commission have suggested to the government to completely remove the open competition system and implement a proportional system based on ethnicity to recruit government employees.

KATHMANDU, March 20: In the name of administrative reform, more than two dozen high-level commissions, working groups and committees have been formed in the last 71 years. But instead of implementing most of the reports given by those commissions, working groups and committees, the government is shying away from its responsibilities against public interest.

KATHMANDU, Feb 20: Before the establishment of democracy 72 years ago in 2007 BS, the country was run by about half a dozen government offices. Along with the political change in 2007 BS, there was also a major change in the administration system. Now there are 321 government offices in the center. Besides, there are about 300 offices under the state government and at least 753 offices under the local governments.

KATHMANDU, Feb 16: In the last six months, the government has allowed 21 private companies to use the right of way over 300 hectares of forest area. Forest area has also been allocated for cable car and cement industries.

KATHMANDU, Feb 7: The responsibilities of three more ministries have falen upon the shoulders of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal after the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) quit the government. Currently, the six ministries are under him, including the office of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers.

KATHMNADU, Feb 2: Rabi Lamichhane, who submitted his resignation as Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister after the Supreme Court's decision, has not yet left the minister's residence in Pulchok. After the Supreme Court did not uphold Lamichhane's Nepali citizenship, he submitted his resignation letter to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Friday. The very next day, he said that he had left the government residence, but as the Home Minister, Lamichhane has been living in "D2Block" of the minister's residence in Pulchok.

KATHMANDU, Jan 31: The government has prepared a draft Federal Civil Service Bill so as to allow promotions of employees without requiring them to work in remote areas. The draft is set to be presented to the federal parliament soon. A source at the federal affairs ministry stated that the promotion provisions in the draft have been included to benefit staff with access to the higher-ups and employee union leaders. If the draft provisions are to be implemented as they are, government employees will not have to serve in remote areas of the country for promotions nor will there be any role of their work performance evaluation in promotions.

KATHMANDU, Jan 21: Assembly halls and view towers built in different parts of the country at the expense of millions of rupees have been left in abeyance due to the failure of the government to develop procedures in time. Although a large amount of state funds have been spent on the construction of assembly halls and view towers, they have not been put to use due to the lack of operational and management procedures.

KATHMANDU, Dec 29: Following the recent change in government, around Rs 12.5 million is to be spent from the state coffers just on residence management for the new ministers. Before the new ministers move into the ministers’ quarters at Pulchowk, the Federal Secretariat Construction and Management Office gets them cleaned up and repainted and supplies other necessaries required by the ministers’ families.

KATHMANDU, Dec 25: The Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Jeevan Ram Shrestha has sent a proposal to the Ministry of Finance to provide 300 million rupees as subsidy to various organizations close to him. The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has been giving grants to organizations working in social, religious and cultural fields. However, grants given in this way are not regular.

KATHMANDU, Dec 13: There is widespread opposition to the amendment made to the Civil Criminal Procedures Code 2074 BS brought by the government with the aim of releasing various people, including Resham Chaudhary, who are in jail on criminal charges. Also, pressure has increased on the government to withdraw the ordinance.

KATHMANDU, Dec 12: The government has decided to introduce an ordinance to pave the way for the release of the advisor to Nagarik Unmukti Party (NUP), Resham Chaudhary, who is serving a life sentence for the past five years for masterminding the 2015 Tikapur massacre in which nine people were killed.