KATHMANDU, July 23: Karnali Province has been facing an acute shortage of staff as the province is not the first choice for government employees, said Province Chief Minister Mahendra Bahadur Shahi.

Karnali is in dire need of at least around 3000 staffs to function properly, according to Shahi. The federal government has approved 1,334 government employees for the most deprived and backward of the seven provinces.

“At least about 500 employees are required immediately. Otherwise, the provincial body cannot work,” he said speaking at an interaction program organized by the Reporters’ Club Nepal on Tuesday.

The government concluded the adjustment of over 100,000 civil servants in all the three tiers of government on March 28 as per the Employees Adjustment Act—which was supposed to end the staff shortages at provincial and local governments.

But, most government employees chose the federal government instead when given the option— adding to the crunch of staff at local and provincial levels.

Furthermore, the adjustment of the employees from Karnali to elsewhere has aggravated the shortage of staff at Karnali Province. Also, the adjusted staff in the province were reluctant to register their attendance on time, which had prompted the provincial government to issue warning notice in the name of such staffers.

“Even though we requested the federal government to send staff, mostly technical staffs through Public Service Commission, the process seems to take more time,” he said.

“It is adding more problems and delays in our performance,” he added. “We have not been able to fulfill people’s need.”

“An attractive raise in the staff’s incentives will make them attracted to Karnali.”

SURKHET, March 5: Chief Minister of Karnali State, Mahendra Bahadur Shahi, has said that the government would make media systematic gradually.

During the meeting with five-member mission team of Federation of Nepali Journalists led by General-Secretary Ramesh Bista, this morning, Chief Minister Shahi said, “It is necessary to make government, community and private media systematic.”

Saying the government has not tried to close community and private media, he pointed out the need that the government media should move ahead in order to make development by leading all media houses.

He further said that a border discussion was necessary on the issue of media houses.

Similarly, FNJ General Secretary Bista stressed that media houses should be operated with editorial freedom. RSS

SURKHET, Sept 16: Karnali province Chief Minister Mahendra Bahadur Shahi has claimed that the Karnali region is not poor, but has been made so.

“The region is rich in natural resources including fresh water, specific food grains and herbs, but we have ignored the valuable gifts of nature and adopted the culture of indulging in tea and biscuits”, claimed the CM while inaugurating a capacity enhancement program organized for office bearers and employees of local level judicial committees here today.

Objecting to the expectation for livelihoods support from outsiders, a means that gradually make Nepalis dependent, he called for judicial committee members to dedicate themselves to the service of people with high confidence.

Province minister for internal affairs and law, Naresh Bhandari, said women having been denied justice in the past had now started serving at justice-delivery mechanism, which was one of the major achievements of the republic system.

Minister for economic affairs and planning, Prakash Jwala, said the constitution and laws had given major responsibility to the coordinator of committee.

Minister for land management, agriculture and cooperatives Bimala KC stated that opportunities for women to serve as justice providers followed the century-long struggle for the same, urging the women to perform assertively and confidently.

Office bearers and staffs of judicial committees of nine local levels in Surkhet district were present at the program. The program will be organized in all 10 districts in the Karnali province. RSS

KATHMANDU, Jan 7: CPN (Maoist Center) leaders have finally agreed on making Mahendra Bahadur Shahi as the chief minister of Province 6. Shahi was elected to PA member from Kalikot-B in first-past-the-post category.

Shahi and Naresh Bhandari had made claims for the positions earlier. Leaders Janardan Sharma and Shakti Bahadur Basnet okayed Shahi’s names for the position. However, the decision will be formally announced on Thursday, according to sources. Bhandari was elected from Jumla.

According to an agreement reached between the two left alliance parties, UML is to lead province government in Province 1, 3, 4 and 5 while Maoist Center will lead in Province 5 and 6.

Maoist Center have already recommended Trilochan Bhatta’s name as the chief minister of province 7.

BHAKTAPUR, Jan 14: CPN (Maoist Center) leader Mahendra Bahadur Shahi has said that internal and external conspiracies have been hatched to foil left alliance.

At a program organized at Rafat Sanchar Club in Bhaktapur on Sunday, leader Shahi added that some forces in and abroad were exercising to disturb the national politics to develop Nepal as their own play ground and such conspiracies will not be successful.

He said, “If CPN-UML Chair KP Sharma Oli leads the left alliance government, then MC chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal will lead the party.”

He also termed the Election Commission’s activities regarding to publish the election result as mysterious.

On another note, he claimed that he was capable to become the Chief Minister of Province no 6 and added that he was ready to take the responsibility. RSS