Why is the bureaucracy so inept?

The pace of decentralisation is slow, and the administrative culture is not performance-oriented.

Reform efforts have addressed the role and functions of the civil service, its organisational structure and working methods, its human resource system, and its governance; but Nepal's bureaucracy still has many weaknesses. Among them are low levels of motivation among civil servants, the perception that the entire scope of government work affects human life, unnecessary expansion in the number of government agencies, multiple layers in the decision-making process, weak accountability mechanism, difficulty in embracing new technology, lack of accountability, and lack of decentralisation.