Government reshuffles bureaucracy

In a major reshuffle of the bureaucracy, the government Friday transferred eight secretaries, promoted nine joint secretaries, and designated five joint secretaries to acting secretaries.

Kumar Prasad Poudel has been promoted appointed secretary of the Ministry of Communication and Information. Likewise, Chuman Singh Basnet, Ganesh Kumar KC and Dipendra Bikram Thapa have been promoted and designated secretaries at the Ministry of Education and Sports, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives and Ministry of Labor and Transport Management respectively.

Similarly, Sushil Prasad Sharma has been promoted and placed at the office of the Auditor General, Dolakh Bahadur Gurung at the Election Commission, Ram Krishna Tiwari at the National Planning Commission, Yuva Raj Pandey at the Ministry of Local Development and Ram Chandra Man Shrestha at the Health Ministry.

Likewise, Narayan Prashad Silwal has been transferred to the Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Secretariat, Soyambhu Man Amatya to the Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation, and Anant Raj Pandey to the Ministry Environment and Science.

Similalrly, Bal Krishna Prasai, Govinda Prasad Pandey and Tirtha Raj Sharma Gyawali have been transferred to Home Ministry, Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation and the Commission for Investigation of the Abuse of Authority, respectively.

Secretaries Laba Kumar Devkota and Chandi Prashad Shrestha have been placed at the reserve pool. Similarly, Nabin Kumar Shrestha has been designated acting secretary at the Foreign Ministry.

Other designated acting secretaries include, Yuva Raj Bhusal in the Ministry of Land reform and management, Sushil Jung Bahadur Rana in Public Service Commission, Shital Babu Regmi in the Secretariat of the Water and Energy Commission, and Krishna Kumar Shrestha in the National Alert Centre. nepalnews.com pb Oct 28 05