New Civil Service Act 2062 provisions on scientific basis ? Kathmandu, July 19- Government has brought Civil Service Act 2062 through Ordinance to make the civil service sector more competent and service oriented, said Minister for Information and Communication Tanka Dhakal Monday.Speaking at a programme organised at the Department of Information, he said that civil service mechanism should be pro-people and result-oriented but the erstwhile governments had manipulated civil service for political gains. He said, “Civil service is like a permanent government but frequent changes in governments and unethical political interference affected the civil service.”He said that the government has tried to correct the past mistakes in other sectors besides the reform in the civil service act. In this connection, a high level committee has been formed to study the problems of bonded labors, landless and squatters. Another separate high level committee has been formed to study and to eliminate the problems surfaced in supply process in the Kathmandu Valley.The new act has made new provisions including promotion, vacancies, new recruitment, transference, succession, punishment, perks and benefits, retirement and voluntary retirements , new provision of positive discrimination to promote women, indigenous people, dalits and differently able people claim the Minister for General Administration Krishna Lal Thakali . This act has made these changes • Right to form union goes By this new Act, made a provision for the operation of no association or union of the civil servants in the country other than as specified, no matter whatever is written in the existing law of the Kingdom.• Throwback to Panchayat days There was a ban on unions during the Panchayat regime. • Low-level staff to be on contract The new ordinance has envisaged to take in staffers like peons, drivers and sweepers on a contract basis. This new act has also Take pension entitlement from those joining government service from now on away. However, this does not apply for the time being to the army and the police. The ordinance also authorises a committee to recommend names for the post of secretaries three times more than vacancies. Any civil servant acquiring a permanent citizenship in a foreign land would be automatically removed from service, the ordinance states.Most of the civil servent has made their deep concern agianst this act reports.

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