The government has formally decided to abolish all the 12 trade unions of civil and health services which were in place for the last 35 years under the patronage of different political parties, following the issuance of the ordinance “Some Nepal Acts Amendment Ordinance 2083” by the President. The provision was removed after the ordinance, recommended by the government and prepared by the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs in coordination with the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration, came into effect. With this decision, not any form of trade union will now exist within the civil service.
Prime Minister Balendra (Balen) Shah has made it clear that the abolition of trade unions and party flags was aimed at making the bureaucracy and academia clean, free, and professional. He has further said that prohibiting party flags in schools and bureaucracy will not seize rights of students and employees, but strengthens professional freedoms. Party politics in the university and bureaucracy, deep-rooted in the country for a long time, has ruined education and administration.
Many journalists, leaders, activists, businessmen and the general public have been arguing for years that political party affiliated trade unions have ruined university study and bureaucracy.
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