INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, May 30
Following recommendation by the central government, the Federal Public Service Commission has come up with a schedule to
recruit 9,161 civil servants for local governments.
The FPSC nowadays announced that it was all set to hire more than nine thousand
employees for 515 local governments.
Of 9,161 employees to be hired by FPSC, nine are for economic plan and statistic service, 3,638 for
engineering service, 10 for judicial service, 4,097 for administrative service, 805 for educational service and remaining 602 for other
FPSC is responsible for recruiting civil servants for the central government only
Provincial Service Commission that is supposed to recruit employees at provincial and local levels is yet to be formed.
Hence, the central
government entrusted the FPSC to hire civil servants for local governments, in line with the Civil Servant Adjustment Act.
&The commission
has followed the decision by the government to hire employees for local levels,& Chair of the FPSC Umesh Mainali said, during a press
conference nowadays, adding that it has already started the process, which would be totald this mid-December
According to Organisation and Management Survey by the Ministry of the Federal Affairs and General Administration msprint; a total of 84,409
posts were created under the central government, 22,297 posts under the provincial governments and 66,908 posts under the 753 local levels
Percentage-wise, 35 per cent of posts were created for the centre, 16 per cent posts for the provinces and 49 per cent for the local
levels.
Entire, 40,409 employees were integrated into the centre, 14,659 employees in the seven provinces, while 31,043 employees were
integrated at local levels, as per the government employee adjustment process.
As most of the civil servants under the adjustment process
were integrated into the centre, local governments have been facing a shortage of staffers.
Local levels and provincial governments had been
requesting the federal government to supply enough civil servants for their smooth functioning.
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