Federal Civil Service Bill lands in parliament

Kathmandu- The Federal Civil Service Bill has been presented in the House of Representatives. Minister for Federal Affairs and General Administration, Bhanubhakta Joshi, tabled the ‘Federal Civil Service Bill, 2024’ in the meeting of the lower house of the Federal Parliament today.

On the occasion, Minister Joshi said the legislation has been brought to address the need of operating and managing the laws related to the service, terms and conditions and facilities of the government employees in line with the federal set-up. According to him, the bill has been brought to implement the administrative restructuring in tune with the restructuring of the State.

He pointed out to the need of issuing the Federal Civil Service Act to make the country’s administrative system well-managed, functional and result-oriented in accordance with the governance system and to rendering the administrative federalization more effective.

The Federal Affairs and General Administration Minister argued that the bill has been brought as it is necessary to make provisions on organization, operation and the service terms and conditions of the civil service so as to run the services to be provided by the State in an effective way, making the civil servants politically neutral and professionally capable, inclusive, professional, participatory and with high morale and integrity.

He added that the has been presented in the House as it is expedient to developing the civil service as a good governance oriented mechanism that is committed to the national interest and the federal democratic republic, is politically neutral and professionally efficient, strong, accountable and professional.

According to him, the bill will make it easy for managing the employees in the federal, provincial and local levels. Before this, the HoR meeting rejected with a majority a notice of dissent that lawmaker Prem Suwal put on the proposal seeking permission to present the Federal Civil Service Bill, 2024. The government had registered the bill in the Federal Parliament on March 4.