Karnali suffers in absence of senior officials and Kathmandu transfers them frequently without consulting the province

Two-fifths of the bureaucracy positions remain vacant and with the Federal Civil Servant Act still not in place, the province cannot start appointing civil servants on its own.

Tek Narayan Pandey, chief secretary of Karnali Province, was transferred to the Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation in Kathmandu on July 20. A day later secretary of the chief minister’s office Laxmi Kumar Basnet was deputed as acting chief secretary of the province.