Kathmandu, Mar. 31:Chairman of the Centre for Studies on Democracy and Good Governance (csdg) Hridayesh Tripathy presented a report of the three phase studies carried out by the centre to Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala at the latter’s office today.

Directors of the centre Madhav Kumar Nepal and Pashupati Shamsher J. B. Rana and member of the centre’s steering committee Dr. Mohammad Mohsin were also present at the report presentation programme.

Prior to presentation of the report, Mr Nepal said the centre has been set up with the joint efforts of general secretaries of all political parties with a view to promoting democracy and good governance.

Another director of the centre Mr Rana noted that the main objective of the centre is to pursue consensus in issues of national importance among different political parties.

Centre’s director Achyut Bahadur Rajbhandari noted that the centre studied an impartial and neutral civil service, promotion of accountability in civil service and a self-regulartory transfer and promotion system for the civil service and reached a concrete conclusion.

The report recommended that the scope of civil service should be determined, the Public Service Commission and the House of Representatives State Affairs Committee may inquire into issues involving employees going beyond the bounds of neutrality, good governance act and civic society act should be worked out, transfers of employees made in keeping with scheduled plans and a civil service council formed to recommend transfers of high-ranking officials.