KATHMANDU, June 9: The government has transferred 10 secretaries in a major administrative reshuffle following the reduction in the number of ministries, resulting in a concentration of top bureaucrats at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), where the total number of secretaries has now reached ten.
The restructuring has further increased the administrative load at the PMO.
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Currently, four secretaries are already serving at the Prime Minister’s Office: Kiran Raj Sharma, Khagendra Prasad Nepal, Govinda Sharma, and Pushkar Sapkota. Following the latest transfers, six more secretaries have been reassigned to the PMO. They include Loknath Paudel (transferred from the then Ministry of Youth and Sports), Krishna Hari Pushkar (from the Vice President’s Office), Hari Prasad Mainali (from the Public Procurement Monitoring Office), Dr. Govinda Prasad Sharma (from the then Ministry of Forest and Environment), Dilli Ram Sharma (from the then Ministry of Health and Population), and Danduraj Ghimire, who is currently suspended.
Among them, Govinda Sharma has been assigned coordination responsibility for Tribhuvan International Airport.
The government has also transferred Chandrakala Paudel, secretary at the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration, to the Vice President’s Office as part of the same reshuffle.
