The Cabinet Monday approved a Civil Service (Second Amendment) Ordinance empowering the government to appoint temporary secretaries to 1,270 village development committees where day-to-day administration had come to a standstill in their absence after the government of then Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba did not hold local elections last year at the end of their five-year tenure.
The government will send the ordinance to the King for promulgation. The amendment to the Civil Service Regulation empowers the government to appoint secretaries to vacant posts in the villages.
There are nearly 4,000 development committees in the kingdom.