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| Kathmandu, Monday April 15, 2002 Baishakh 02, 2059. |
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Junior
employees run admin in Rukum
Post Report
NEPALGUNJ, April 14 :
People of the mid-western hill district of Rukum have been deprived of essential
government services after senior district-level officials left their offices without
permissions from their higher-level authorities due to the fear of possible Maoist
attacks, according to a report received here.
Maoists often spread
rumours of attacks in the district headquarters of Musikot at any moment. Rukum is
considered one of the most sensitive districts in the region from security point of view.
Although the government
has issued directives barring government employees not to leave their office on any
purposes, Chief District Officer (CDO) and 35 other section officers are on leave for the
last four months. Nowadays, a non-gazetted officer is looking after the works that is
supposed to be handled by the CDO. A section officer who was appointed as the acting CDO
has also not turned up since last week.
According to
Vice-Chairman of Rukum District Development Committee, Thagendra Prakash Puri,
junior-level employees are staying in their respective offices and they cannot provide
necessary services to the people on their own discretion.
Puri said that a
delegation had met with the Prime Minister requesting him to fulfill the administrative
requirement, but nothing has happened so far. Locals of Musikot said that people from
far-flung villages have stopped coming to Musikot after they realised that they would not
get their jobs done by the government employees. Mostly, people visit the district
headquarters to get their citizenship certificates and passports from the district
administrative office headed by CDO.
A government employee
who arrived in Nepalgunj for his personal business said that the security officials were
facing difficulties in imposing dawn-to-dust curfew in the absence of the CDO.
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