Nepal

Kathmandu, July 18

Save Reservation Campaign, an alliance of organisations including Tarai Madhes National Council and Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities, championing the cause of affirmative action, protested in front of the Federal Public Service Commission office against its decision to go ahead with its process of recruiting 9,161 employees at 515 local levels.

SRC has been agitating against the FPSCjob announcement stating that its move did not comply with the reservation policies as guaranteed by the constitution. The FPSC has, however, said that it was not in a position to guarantee reservation to all clusters as it has the obligation to fulfil vacant seats at local levels. Though the provincial public service commissions are authorised to recruit staff at local levels, central government had asked the federal FPSC to recruit staff at local levels as provincial PSCs were yet to be formed.

The FPSC is scheduled to conduct written exams for vacant posts from this Saturday. Save Reservation Campaign Secretariat member Anand Gupta said his organisation will burn effigies of FPSC Chairman Umesh Mainali and Minister of Federal Affairs and General Administration Lalbabu Pandit tomorrow to protest against the job adverts. He said his organisation will also disrupt the PSCwritten exams scheduled for Saturday.

Gupta said they had gone to padlock the FPSC office today but were chased away by the police. He said FPSCdecision had challenged Parliamentary supremacy as it ignored the State Affairs and Good Governance Committeefiat to halt the process.

He said Madhesis and Janajatis would lose large number of seats due to FPSCdecision to recruit 9,161 employees at local levels. According to him, Madhesis will have to suffer 92 per cent loss and Janajatis 52 per cent. &FPSC has opened vacancies for 343 account officers, of which there is not a single seat reserved under Madhesi cluster,& Gupta argued.

Political analyst Tula Narayan Shah said out of 575 officer level posts advertised for local levels, 259 seats had to be advertised under reservation category but only 111 seats had been allotted for various clusters. He said Madhesi cluster should have got 57 seats but only 12 seats were allotted for them. Janajatis should have got 70 seats but they got only 14 seats. He said out of 2,346 assistant posts, 232 seats should have been advertised for Madhesis but only 12 seats were allotted for them. Janajatis should have got 95 seats but they got only two seats. Differently-abled groups were entitled to 52 seats but there is not a single seat allotted for them.

Out of 481 posts of engineers, Madhesis who should have got 48 seats got only seven seats. Janajatis who should have got 58 seats got only seven seats.

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KATHMANDU: The first group of Hajj pilgrims have left Kathmandu for the holy city of Mecca in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, today.

The group consists of 156 pilgrims out of a total of 1,210 pilgrims this year, said Surya Bahadur Khatri, Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA). The Hajj pilgrimage is managed by the Central Hajj Committee under MoHA.

The cost per person for the trip is Rs 200,000 which includes all expenses of travel and accommodation, added Under Secretary Khatri.

Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa went to see off the first group of pilgrims travelling to Mecca at Tribhuvan International Airport. Minister for Urban Development Mohamed Istiyak Rai and Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali were also there to bid farewell to the pilgrims.

Likewise, Ambassadors of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Nepal also joined the ministers and other officials to bid the pilgrims farewell.

Hajj is the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca considered a religious duty by people belonging to the Muslim community worldwide.

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Kathmandu, July 17

Kathmandu Metropolitan City is set to bring new polices into effect to control and monitor all organisations working on waste management within the metropolis.

According to the KMC, around 35 private organisations working inside the metropolis collect waste from door-to-door and manage them at Sisdol Landfill Site at Okharpauwa of Nuwakot district. These organisations collect around 80 to 100 trucks of waste before transporting them to the site.

Hari Kumar Shrestha, head of Environment Department at KMC said, &We are frequently getting complaints from the public that the organisations do not collect waste from households on time.& With the new policy, KMC seeks to bring private companies under its jurisdiction and work in partnership with them. &We are also hoping to work in tandem with the private organisations to transfer the valley waste in Sisdol after collecting them at Teku-based temporary waste collection centre,& he added.

Some 15 private organisations have been operating in various places of Kathmandu valley in collecting waste. Lack of coordinated transportation system is one of the major hurdles for valley waste management, according to Shrestha.

It is estimated that KMC and various private organisations transport around 1,000 tonnes of garbage to Sisdol landfill site from the valley every day. KMC alone generates 30 per cent of the waste. Meanwhile, vehicular movement to the landfill site obstructed due to incessant rainfall since the past few days has resumed from today.

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