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Nepal bans serving bureaucrats to acquire permanent residency in foreign countries

Xinhua, July 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Nepalese government has banned serving bureaucrats to acquire permanent residency in foreign countries, a Nepalese minister told Xinhua in Kathmandu on Wednesday.

"Serving bureaucrats who have already obtained permanent residency in foreign countries are requested to renounce it. They can resume their jobs in Nepal by renouncing the residency in foreign countries within next 60 days," Minister For General Administration Lal Babu Pandit said.

With the objective of bringing reforms in the civil service, the Nepalese government has introduced a new law which envisages that the government would expel the serving government employees if they are found to have acquired the permanent residency in foreign countries.

The new law which came into effect from Wednesday would be strictly implemented, the government officials said, and it is the first time in Nepal's bureaucratic history.

"We are currently investigating over around 600 Nepali employees who are believed to have got residency in foreign countries," the minister said, "we would take action against them as soon as the investigation proves them guilty."

Last week Nepal's Legislature-Parliament endorsed the law on the recommendation of the Nepalese government, and the new law also bars serving government officials from joining the non- government sectors such as mentoring at the universities and schools or working as consultants in the private firms.

"Government employees' allegiance and honesty to their duties is extremely important for better public service delivery through the government offices," Pandit said.

According to the ministry, besides in the Nepal Police, Armed Police Force and Nepal Army, there are 75,000 civil servants in the various government bodies of the Himalayan nation. Endi