Government Transfers Ten Secretaries

Kathmandu. The government has transferred ten secretaries. The Prime Minister's Office and Council of Ministers has informed that ten secretaries have been transferred based on the decision of the Council of Ministers last Friday.

According to the secretariat of Prime Minister Balen Shah, the government has pulled Govinda Sharma, who was the secretary of the Ministry of Forests and Environment, to the Prime Minister's Office and Council of Ministers and given him the responsibility of coordinating Tribhuvan International Airport. 

Chandra Kala Poudel, who was the secretary of the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration, has been transferred to the Office of the Vice President. Dr. Krishna Hari Puskhar, who was in the Vice President's Office, has been pulled to the Prime Minister's Office and Council of Ministers and kept in the additional group. Puskhar was taken into custody by the police for questioning for 7 hours last Thursday on the instructions of the Prime Minister's Office and Council of Ministers for violating the 'chain of command' and sending an SMS to Prime Minister Shah.

Pramila Devi Shakya Bajracharya, who was in the Nepal Trust's office, has been given the responsibility of secretary of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Chiranjivi Chataut, secretary of the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, has been transferred to the Nepal Trust's office. 

Dina Nath Mishra, secretary of the Water and Energy Commission, has been sent to the National Vigilance Centre. Gundaraj Ghimire, chief secretary of Gandaki Province, has been transferred to the additional group of the Prime Minister's Office and Council of Ministers as he is suspended.

Secretary Ghimire was suspended after the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority filed a corruption case in the Pokhara Airport construction tax exemption irregularities. The Commission filed a case in the Special Court stating that Ghimire was involved in tax exemption irregularities while working as a joint secretary in the Ministry of Tourism.

Bhoopal Baral, Revenue Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, has been transferred as the secretary of Gandaki Province. Suraj Kumar Vaidya, secretary of the National Vigilance Centre, has been pulled to the Prime Minister's Office and Council of Ministers. 

Dilli Raj Sharma, secretary of the Ministry of Health and Food Hygiene, has also been pulled to the Prime Minister's Office and Council of Ministers. 

The Prime Minister's secretariat has informed that the transferred secretaries have already received their letters. The government has reduced the number of ministries from 22 to 18 by bringing in the operational rules. After that, the secretaries of the merged ministries have been transferred. 

The Prime Minister's Office and Council of Ministers has informed that the secretaries working in ministries whose names have not changed after reducing the ministries have been posted in the same ministries.