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Minister Pandit in Delhi to study Indian model of federalism
Minister for Federal Affairs and General Administration Lal Babu Pandit has arrived in New Delhi seeking formula for managing civil servants in a federal structure.Suresh Raj Neupane
Minister for Federal Affairs and General Administration Lal Babu Pandit has arrived in New Delhi seeking formula for managing civil servants in a federal structure.
Administration Improvement Division joint secretary Bhupal Baral and Local Level Capacity Development Chief Joint secretary Suresh Adhikari are part of the minister’s delegation.
In Delhi, Minister Pandit held meetings with experts to study and understand the structure of administrative services in India at a time when Nepal faces new challenges in managing its civil employees after the country adopted federalism.
At a workshop on Federal Administration on Wednesday, experts on administrative services shared their knowledge on the structures adopted by India with the Nepali team led by Minister Pandit. They explained to the Nepali team how India manages its civil employees in three-tier federal administration.
Minister Pandit held a meeting with India’s Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Jitendra Singh on Tuesday.
Acting Chief of Nepali Mission in New Delhi Bharat Kumar Regmi said, the two ministers exchanged experiences on civil staff management in federalism during their meeting. They held discussions on imparting training to civil servants and ways to make staff management effective at all three levels of the federal structure.
“The ministers discussed signing an agreement between Nepal Administrative Staff College and Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, to enhance the capacity of civil staff,” said Regmi.
Earlier on Monday, Minister Pandit met Chairman of Union Public Service Commission Arvind Saxena who informed him the existing system for recruitment, transfer and promotion in federal administration of India.
The Nepal government recently issued a notice to rejig its civil servants in the three tiers of the government. It is three years since the government adopted federalism, yet it has failed to deploy civil servants.
This failure has affected service seekers. Small wonder, the government faces a lot of criticism for its failure.
There is anticipation the implementation of long-pending law on staff rejiging will make way for managing the staff. Of the 86,000 civil servants including secretaries, the government is planning to rejig 41,000 civil staff in the provinces and local levels.
With this background, Minister Pandit’s visit gains importance because Nepal faces many challenges to manage its federal administration after the restructuring of country from the erstwhile central governing system.
Minister Pandit said the aim of his visit is to understand the Indian experience on federalism as part of his efforts to make Nepal successful in terms of administration, economic and structure.
“India has a long and vast experience in practising federalism and it is important to understand how India deals with the problems related to civil staff management,” he said.