Here are some of the top stories from The Kathmandu Post (June 4, 2019).
How the inclusion policy will be affected in the staff recruitment drive at the local level
Public Service Commission Chairman Umesh Mainali faced angry lawmakers on Monday over the vacancy notice that was issued to recruit 9,161 staffers at 515 local governments, as they blamed the commission for undermining the spirit of inclusion.
During the Parliamentary State Affairs and Good Governance meeting held on Monday, lawmakers accused the commission of colluding with the federal government to deprive people of getting jobs at the local level under the inclusion policy.
As per the request of the federal government, the commission on May 29 issued the vacancy notice in the single largest recruitment drive ever to fill the vacant posts at the local units.
The lawmakers protested the recruitment plan stating that it was against the inclusion policy as envisioned by the constitution and Civil Service Act.
Billions of rupees enter the country as remittance. Where does it all go?
Remittance has been the lifeblood of Nepal’s economy, with the money sent back by nearly 500,000 migrant workers equivalent to 28 percent of last year’s Gross Domestic Product, according to an April report from the World Bank.
In 2018 alone, Nepali migrants sent home $8.1 billion, making it the 19th largest receiver of remittance in the world.
The amount of remittance had gone up by 16.39 percent year-on-year, despite a drop in the number of departures, said the report.
95.5 percent of Nepalis have an electricity connection, report says
Electricity had reached 95.5 percent of Nepal’s population as of 2017, according to the Energy Progress Report. Only 1.3 million out of 29 million Nepalis remain to be connected to an electricity supply. In 2010, only 65 percent of the population had an electricity connection.
Officials said Nepal was expected to achieve 100 percent access to electricity within a few years, well ahead of the target year of 2030 set by Sustainable Development Goal 7.
“My comics are an extension of what I have on my mind.”
Mimi cha has short hair and is usually accompanied by a talking cat named Meow cha. It is difficult to discern if the cat is a friend, a sibling or Mimi cha’s inner consciousness, but they make a perfect pair in Rimishna Manandhar’s comic strip.
Mimi cha is Manandhar’s alter ego of sorts. She documents the chronicles of her everyday life with some humour and philosophy on her Instagram page @o_mimi_cha. Even though she uses social media to share her comic strips, her artworks are mostly line art on a plain notebook. But her growing followers—which has reached 5.2.k on her Instagram page—do not seem to mind her simplistic style.
Her comics talk of many things, but mostly of her life. And one cannot help but notice similarities between her work and American daily comic strip classics such as Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ and Jim Davis’s ‘Garfield’, in terms of quirky philosophy and satire.
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