INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, July 18
Save Reservation Campaign, an alliance of organisations including Tarai Madhes National Council and Nepal Federation of
Indigenous Nationalities, championing the cause of affirmative action, protested in front of the Federal Public Service Commission office
against its decision to go ahead with its process of recruiting 9,161 employees at 515 local levels.
SRC has been agitating against the
FPSC job announcement stating that its move did not comply with the reservation policies as guaranteed by the constitution
The FPSC has, however, said that it was not in a position to guarantee reservation to all clusters as it has the obligation to fulfil vacant
Though the provincial public service commissions are authorised to recruit staff at local levels, central government had asked the federal
FPSC to recruit staff at local levels as provincial PSCs were yet to be formed.
The FPSC is scheduled to conduct written exams for vacant
Save Reservation Campaign Secretariat member Anand Gupta said his organisation will burn effigies of FPSC Chairman Umesh Mainali and
Minister of Federal Affairs and General Administration Lalbabu Pandit tomorrow to protest against the job adverts
He said his organisation will also disrupt the PSC written exams scheduled for Saturday.
Gupta said they had gone to padlock the FPSC office
today but were chased away by the police
He said FPSC decision had challenged Parliamentary supremacy as it ignored the State Affairs and Good Governance Committee fiat to halt the
process.
He said Madhesis and Janajatis would lose large number of seats due to FPSC decision to recruit 9,161 employees at local levels
According to him, Madhesis will have to suffer 92 per cent loss and Janajatis 52 per cent
&FPSC has opened vacancies for 343 account officers, of which there is not a single seat reserved under Madhesi cluster,& Gupta
argued.
Political analyst Tula Narayan Shah said out of 575 officer level posts advertised for local levels, 259 seats had to be advertised
under reservation category but only 111 seats had been allotted for various clusters
He said Madhesi cluster should have got 57 seats but only 12 seats were allotted for them
Janajatis should have got 70 seats but they got only 14 seats
He said out of 2,346 assistant posts, 232 seats should have been advertised for Madhesis but only 12 seats were allotted for them
Janajatis should have got 95 seats but they got only two seats
Differently-abled groups were entitled to 52 seats but there is not a single seat allotted for them.
Out of 481 posts of engineers, Madhesis
who should have got 48 seats got only seven seats
Janajatis who should have got 58 seats got only seven seats.
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