Bill Aims For Civil Service Efficiency

The incumbent coalition government has formed a panel, headed by NC leader and former minister Dilendra Prasad Badu, to hammer out a consensus among political parties on the civil service bill that is long pending in the parliament and break the gridlock to pass the civil service law. The panel comprises parliamentarians representing both the treasury and opposition benches of the Parliament. The sluggishness seen on the part of the ruling coalition to pass the bill has pushed Nepali bureaucracy into a state of disarray. Some issues in the bill have become thorny and ticklish. Several interests are enmeshed and involved in it. Civil servants and their unions have their stakes in it for these stakeholders are inclined to ensure that the new civil service law should protect their interests whatsoever.