Kathmandu, Jun 21
The National Vigilance Centre (NAC) has
recommended reviewing the present legal provision that demands officials and
staff holding the public posts to submit the details of their property.
It has included the suggestion in its
property detail monitoring report of the fiscal year 2019/20 and said that
separate provision should be made for the staff below a certain level and for
those working on contract and wage-basis.
There is also a need to transform the hard
copy forms to electronic format. “As the number of forms for property details
that need to be protected is increasing every year, there is a need to make it
electronic,” said the NAC.
According to the report, the NAC has
suggested to get the details of property of officials above certain posts and
create alternative provision for others, implement the system only in the
offices that conduct cash transactions and ask to submit the details only in
case of compliant.
Likewise, it has also recommended to get
the details of the property while appointing the officials and staff and go for
a cash-bases property details.
In the current fiscal year, a large number
of federal officials and staff did not submit their property detail.
About 12,133 federal employees did not
submit the detail while 4,498 local level staff and 554 state-level staff
followed the same suite.
The number of government employee at the
three level is 606,710. A staff not submitting the property within a due time
is fined Rs. 5,000.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 22 June 2020.
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