Vacant posts in constitutional bodies: CC begins process to select officials
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KATHMANDU, DEC 07 -
The Constitutional Council (CC) on Tuesday initiated the process of appointing officials in various constitutional bodies through open competition.
According to Ram Chandra Poudel, a CC member and the Nepali congress parliamentary party leader, the CC has received 268 applications for the vacant posts in the various constitutional bodies. However, the number appears to be more due to the fact that a single person has applied for more than one post.
A total of 177 applications have been received for various posts in the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), 24 applications for vacant posts in the Office of the Auditor General, 126 for the Election Commission and 131 for the Public Service Commission, Poudel said.
A meeting of the CC decided to ask Chief Secretary Madhav Ghimire to work out additional criteria for selecting the candidates. There already exist selection criteria which include a minimum 45 years of age and expertise of the applicant in the related field.
A meeting of the CC had on September 16 decided to invite applications for the vacant posts and finalised the Terms of Reference (TOR) for the same.
In line with the decision, the government had issued a public notice of the vacancies on September 27, seeking applications within 15 days.
Among the applicants, Senior Advocate Badri Bahadur Karki and former Finance Secretary Bhanu Acharya are learnt to have applied for the post of the auditor general, while Acting Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Nilkantha Upreti has applied for the post of the CEC.
Acting Chief of the Public Service Commission (PSC) Kayo Devi Yami has applied for the post of the PSC chief.
Likewise, PSC Secretary Shyam Mainali, former secretaries Yuvraj Pandey and Uday Raj Nepali have also applied for the post of the PSC chief.
The post of the CIAA chief has been lying vacant for the past five years and other commissioners in the anti-graft body have not been appointed for the past two years. Similarly, the Auditor General’s post is vacant for
the past five years, while the Chief Election Commissioner has not been appointed for the last three years.
Posted on: 2011-12-07 09:03
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