Kathmandu. The Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives, Federal Affairs and General Administration has cancelled the financial and administrative responsibilities of the Chief Administrative Officer of 3 municipalities. The Ministry has frozen the accounts of Kanakasundari Rural Municipality of Jumla, Jirabhavani Rural Municipality of Parsa and Budhanilkantha Municipality of Kathmandu.

According to the ministry, the employees working in the municipality were transferred elsewhere. However, they continued to work in the same municipality without appearing in the transferred body. Meanwhile, the newly appointed Chief Administrative Officer was also not sent to the local level.

The Ministry has cancelled the financial responsibility of the local government in the case of the new Chief Administrative Officer who was working in the previous office even after being transferred and the new Chief Administrative Officer was not presented.

The Ministry has directed the new Chief Administrative Officer to immediately assign them with financial and administrative responsibility.

The Ministry informed the Office of Fund and Account Comptroller that the financial responsibility of the local level has been scrapped and urged the Ministry to make necessary arrangements for the operation of accounts.