Kathmandu Metropolitan City has transferred 37 officials, majority of them department heads from different department on Wednesday.

KMC Chief Executive Officer Yadav Prasad Koirala said, “Keeping the head in one department for longer time may lead them to influence people. We have transferred almost all the department heads to reform KMC’s working procedure.”

 Excepting Gyanendra Karki, the KMC’s chief administration officer, and Ratna Manandhar of the Department of Finance, all department heads have been transferred.

Head of Public Health Division Hari Kumar Shrestha is transferred to Environment Department, Rajya Prakash Pradhan from Department of Tax to Information Technology Department and  Chief of the Environment Division Hari Bahadur Kunwar to Department of Good Governance.

Indra Man Singh Suwal of Disaster Management Division is transferred to Land Integration Department, Archana Shakya of Heritage and Tourism Department to Department of Disaster Management Department and Urban Infrastructure Development’s Ram Thapa to Environment Division. Dhurba Kafle of Information Technology Division is transferred to Public Private Partnership (PPP) Unit, Mahesh Kaphle of the PPP Unit to International Relation Secretariat and  Rabindra Kumar Rai of Environment Department to Division of Information and Archive. Suraj Shakya from Building Construction Permit Division (Heritage) has been transferred to Building Construction Permit Division.