Kathmandu, July 9
Members of the State Affairs and Good Governance Committee in Parliament on Tuesday debated if the country would need any official trade union for the government staff.
The Committee, of late, is holding a clausewise discussions on the new draft of Civil Service Bill.
Participating in the discussion today, ruling Nepal Communist Party’s lawmaker Pampha Bhusal said the trade union for the government staff was no more needed, sparking a new debate over the issues.
She was of the view that the bill would establish a salary revision committee and it could discuss concerns of the staff at any time they want; hence the trade union was not needed.
Fellow lawmakers of the party Krishna Gopal Shrestha, Bijaya Subba, Rekha Sharma and Maheshwar Jung Gahatraj also supported Bhusal’s argument that the union instead would promote malpractices in the bureaucracy.
Lawmakers of the main opposition–Devendra Raj Kandel, Dilendra Prasad Badu and Dila Sangraula–however, said the union was necessary for the collective welfare of the workforce.
