Minister Pandit said the 12-hour service has begun in two shifts—from 6:00 am to midday and from the noon to 6:00 pm at some government offices of the five development regions with huge workload –so that government could be more accountable to the public.

The minister said,” The government has initiated the two-shift service programme due to the problems faced by service seekers, therefore, we expect the concerned government employees to work effectively in this regard.”

He further informed that the two-shift programme was also intended on minimising the corruption as the huge crowd of service seekers gave a scope for corruption.

Minister Pandit also said that currently the 12-hour service programme has been implemented on offices with huge pressure. Those include offices for passport, citizenship, survey office, land revenue office, licence office, foreign employment offices, electricity, water and telecom offices, among others.

“Bharat Subedi to face action”

In a different context, Minister Pandit has warned of taking action against Bharat Subedi who has arranged his transfer from Department of Inland Revenue to Ministry of Labour and Employment. He was a deputy Director General at the Department of Inland Revenue.

Also, the minister informed of having tabled a bill at Legislature-Parliament to take action against those employee possessing DV, PR and Green Card.