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Expanding The Cabinet Of Prime Minister Deuba
Expanding The Cabinet Of Prime Minister Deuba
KTM Metro Reporter
August 21, 2017
Kathmandu: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba added eight ministers of State to his cabinet yesterday on the eve of putting the Bill On Amendment To Constitution to a vote. All of them are from the Maoist-Center. The cabinet has 31 ministers including three deputy prime ministers, 19 ministers and eight ministers of State.
The expansion of government is supposedly to be for the efficient running of the administration but it is hardly true. The new ministers would rather confuse the administration, as what they are entitled to after the full cabinet ministers. They would have to wait what they are supposed to do after the full ministers of each ministry, as the new ministers are the ministers of State, and they are junior ministers. When the full ministers and the ministers of State are from different political parties working at the same ministries then they would have the conflict of interest.
So, the expansion is probably not for efficiently running the administration rather to meet the demands of the political cadres and their leaders of the coalition partners. The expansion of the cabinet is practically not for improving the administration but to keep the cadres and leaders pleased.
Consequently, more often than not the cabinet had been unnaturally large sometimes reaching the number of ministers to nearly 50 for such a small country about 30 million people: about one minister for every 600,000 people.
The expansion of the current cabinet might not be the last one, as some ministers of State from the NC might be added, too not to mention of other political parties particularly the Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal (RJP-Nepal) that might join the government after the vote in the parliament on the constitution amendment bill on August 21, 2017.
