Diplomacy in Nepal

Public View on Diplomatic Productivity of Nepal

Krishna Hari Pushkar

It is interesting to see that the general public of Nepal are yearning to know and learn about the productivity of the Nepalese Foreign Ministry and its entire mechanism inside and outside the nation.

Previously, it was a matter of special concern for royalty and so called public celebrities, but now perspectives have been changed and almost all Nepalese peoples are starting to judge their own relationship and plus-minus shares in the productivity of Nepalese diplomacy. However, the need and interest of the general public does not seem to receive any response from the diplomatic operators of Nepal.

It is great to know that nowadays, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has been spending huge efforts for restructuring, reengineering and reorganizing its entire institution to achieve better professionalism and huge diplomatic productivity in the changing context of diplomatic world. The working approach in integrated terms is known as an Organization and Management (O&M) survey. This is the current fashion and considered a seasonal activity of the entire civil service system of Nepal, and also, prohibitory policy in general of the Administrative Restructuring Commission (ARC) of Nepal.

It is well known that the Nepalese constitution building process is in limbo. The Constitutional Assembly (CA) has not yet decided on the overall governance structure of the upcoming federal model of Nepal, including the diplomatic affairs and potential structures. It is harmful to move forward without knowing the destination, priority and path forward or being unclear over possible questions about the move. So, everyone is trying to do O & M, which is like shooting bullet into the dark.

However, a few ministries, including MoFA also obtained special permission from ARC for an O & M survey. It is believed that a detailed O & M cannot be materialized now, until after approval of the governance structure of Nepal, in the federal context. Therefore, there are only possibilities of small changes or minimal organizational amendments that are mandatory to work and function at minimum level.

Normally, an O & M survey is a fact based work and document, it should be neither based on values nor influenced by any ill-intention. So, it should be purely based on national and institutional desire and interest. In fact, the major basis of the survey are programs, workload, job nature, rationality, and human resources of the particular institution. Therefore, the O & M is a scientific term, and technically well defined, structured set of activities, that performs under the theology of administration and management sciences.

It is itself a most complex, multi-connected, multiparty, time taking and sensitive job. So, it is essential to express gratitude to MoFA who dared to undertake such tough works. Actually, the O & M Survey is mandatory in Nepal for each and every civil service mechanism that wishes to make any productive changes in its existing organogram and job. In principle, it is required for all degrees of maximum or minimum changes in structures, hierarchy and functions

In any O & M survey, a scientific and technically justified workload analysis is crucial to judge the enlargement, enhancement and enrichment or reduction of an organogram and its system. Now, MoFA is asking central agencies to support them in increasing the numerous numbers of new institutions and divisions, joint secretaries and other high-ranking diplomats inside and outside the nation.

MoFA officials have been asked that O & M survey workload analysis or detail performance analysis be based on the various dimensions of diplomatic productivity and its related determinants, in accordance with the international practice and theory of administrative and management science.

Unfortunately for MoFA, the people and state authorities in Nepal also know that diplomatic productivity does not include any tangible value of money or quantitative calculation that can be easily shown in figures in sense of tax, custom or tourists.

MoFA in our developing nation does not mean anything alone to the country and its people, other than being a white elephant. Theoretically, MoFA is a type of bridge or means of connectivity or aligning authority between domestic and international affairs. It is a kind of road or highway or means of transportation made to link bilateral and multilateral forums and other relevant international community to achieve domestic goals and interest in a defined manner.

For example, if there is war between two states, MoFA officials can't fight since they are not trained for warfare, they have no expertise in war management, so they need state military to attack the enemy state under the umbrella of MoFA or other diplomatic mission.

Similarly, they only have diplomats with generalist backgrounds, so principally, they are not experts in labor affairs, economic affairs, trade affairs, commerce affairs, defense affairs, immigration affairs or security affairs etc. Therefore, the existing MoFA system cannot be productive without having proper, rational and adequate representation from sartorial authorities and institutions in the system and composition of MoFA and its diplomatic mechanism. This may be the ground that alone MoFA has either zero or negligible diplomatic productivity.

Diplomatic productivity has been a hidden or ignored word until now, for MoFA officials in Nepal, so it is important to spend a few lines to define the word. Diplomatic productivity has various dimensions, scope and understanding and it varies, country by country or institution. For instance, determinants and dimensions of diplomatic productivity can be different for mega developed, developed, underdeveloped, and post conflict transitional nations.

For a country like Nepal, the areas or dimension of diplomatic productivity may be described under several subheadings such as foreign direct investment, foreign aid, trade and commerce, foreign employment, tourism, bilateral-multilateral trade and commerce, defense cooperation, intensity of peoples cooperation and contacts, frequency of high-level visits, energy, election and representation, peace building, relief and rescue, consular and immigration service, national competences, international leadership, public accessibility, remittance, exchanges, governance and migrant security.

Diplomatic productivity does not look for direct and instant benefits as everyone knows that the advantages of effective and efficient diplomacy generally come in the long term. It is not like exchanging money for goods from a shop. It is difficult to quantify or calculate the exact quantitative or numerical value of diplomatic effort but it does not mean that it is impossible. It is an area of subjective and qualitative study.

For instance, it can be interpreted on the basis of cases and issues while weighing its achievements in accordance with the goals, priority and interests of what the nation wants to get from its diplomatic apparatus. It is about success (positive) or failure (negative) results that deals with the status of achievements of the state's goal, policies, plans and programs as assigned to MoFA and its mechanisms.

Forty thousand illegal Nepalese jobs came under crisis in Iraq, because MoFA stamped passports "not valid to enter Iraq." MoFA was also totally silent on rescue issues on Middle east/Gulf political unrest until national media and the Ministry of Labor repeatedly demanded immediate action.

It can be seen while studying the status of Asian, European or American markets for Nepalese products and also analyzing the declining positive trade and commerce transactions with Indo-Nepal. Moreover, major countries have changed on arrival visa facilities for Nepalese citizen due to our poor diplomatic performance. In the past, Nepalese enjoyed on-arrival visa facilities in many more countries including Europe, Thailand, Hong Kong and Malaysia.

Declining Nepalese representation, participation and leadership in multilateral and bilateral institutions, including the UN can be considered one of the most pathetic consequences of existing negative diplomatic performance. Similarly, decreasing quality foreign employment market, growing human smuggling in the name of foreign employment and failure to provide basic rescue and relief timely in destination countries for labor migrants shows the real face of the lack of Nepalese diplomacy.

In public opinion, Government should not waste much if the Nepalese diplomat abroad either stands to take part in reception ceremony, hospitality management or just to fulfill their own vested interest. Wearing formal dress, sleeping in meetings, losing in negotiations, enjoying dollars, torturing people for passports, and drinking whisky cannot be the successful code of a diplomat, nor a positive outcome for a state's investment. Changes, restructuring, and correction need to be accepted for immediate reform inside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims that it needs more manpower, resources, new institutions and more because these are essential for their self-claimed and self defined economic diplomacy and foreign employment system without realizing the need and involvement of respective authorities and its stakeholders inside their diplomatic system.

In Nepal, MoFA ignores the reality and contemporary need of a successful diplomacy and international relations system. MoFA must study and learn more about the shifting dynamics of contemporary diplomacy, otherwise it will not be worth making any changes and reform until and unless it rethinks its existing mindset and horizon. MoFA should join hands with concerned agencies on an equal and rational basis. It should reflect on their ongoing O & M, if they really want to go forward to fulfill the need and interest of the nation and its people.

Source: Newsblaze.com

Resolve the Labour Attaché Issue Soon

Resolve the Labour Attaché Issue Soon

By Krishna Hari Pushkar

Labour Attaché’s files are under table of Chief Secretary and CIAA. The appointment and deputation process are somehow postponed. Therefore, the Chief Secretary led team and CIAA must understand the legal (civil service laws & foreign employment laws etc.), professional (Admin/General Admin etc), individual (Particularly about the appointed persons career, prestige and dignity) and national sensitivity (issues of foreign employment, remittances and welfare etc) concerning the quarrel.

In media, our government is always talking about “Impunity”, but what about the impunity that are being performed by particularly government authority and its’ officials? Who is going to look at such impunity control? Intentional disobeying of the legislative and executive provisions are not impunities?

In my view, the Foreign Employment Laws and Civil Service Laws of Nepal give very clear understanding and description about the appointment process, eligibility and decision making process of Labour Attaché, so the both agencies must resolve and take necessary action in accordance with the legal provision of Nepal. The legal provision and lawful executive decisions should not be kept into limbo as considering the issue like contemporary political matters. It could have a very long term negative effect, if such culture continued lengthy.

Also, it is not fair culture to dismiss even the lawful file, if an unhappy group challenge over the acts in particular context due to their vested interest. Government and even the CIIA should consider disobey of Governmental decisions by government officials as an extended impunity. The opposing or delaying activities against the duly appointments are also under the definition of corruption and irregularities in accordance with the anti-corruption and CIAA laws; however, it is unfortunate that CIIA is still seems silent on the issue.

Therefore, I would humbly request to both authorities to take rational and scientific decisions as quick as possible on the issue. According to Civil Service Regulation of Nepal, 2050 (38, 39 &40) the Ministry of Labor and Transport Management must issue the “Ramana” to the appointed officials.

There are also possibilities to go Supreme Court by appointed officials for legal treatment, asking respective authorities to execute the lawful decision, also against the unexpected delay and disturbances. The provisions of civil service laws also point up about the penalization of respective authority and officials in case of irrational causes of unwanted delay in Ramana and Hajiri in assigned destination.

(Attachment: I have also attached herewith an old unedited Nepali written articles that deals with the Labour attaché Issue)

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tt\kZrft\, >d tyf oftfoft Joj:yf dGqfnon] l:js[t b/jGbLdf k|s[ofut 9+un] k|zf;g ;]jf / ;fdfGo k|zf;g ;d"xs} sd{rf/Lx? lgo'lQm ul/ ;s]sf] / tL sd{rf/Lx?sf] ;DalGwt b]zx?df /xg] g]kfnsf] s'6g}lts lgof]udf g} /xL sfdsfh ug'{ kg]{ ePsf]n,] sfg"gtM jfWofTds g/x]klg Jojxf/tM ;fGble{s x'g] sf/0fn] lgo'Qm >d ;xrf/Lsf] ;DaGwdf k//fi6« dGqfno;+u ;xdlt dfu]sf] xf] . of] jfWofTds gePklg >d ;xrf/Lx?sf] sd{rf/L k|zf;g, cfly{s k|zf;g / s'6g}lts k|zf;g sfo{;Dkfbgsf] ;dGjosf/L lgsfo k//fi6« dGqfnonfO{ g} jgfpg] k|rng /x]sf]n] ul/Psf] xf] . t/ k//fi6« dGqfnon] sfg"gL k|s[of gj'em]/ xf] of Toxf+sf clwsf/Lx?n] of] sfg"gL tyf sfo{sf/L lg0f{o g?rfPsf] sf/0fn] Toxf+af6 ljgf ;+sf]r k|bfg ug'{ kg]{ ;xdlt ljleGg axfgfdf /f]lsPsf] xf] . h'g ;Dk"0f{ k|zf;g ;]jf / ;fdfGo k|zf;g ;d"xdf sfo{/t ;j}sf nflu cToGt b'vbfoL / ckdflgt ljifo xf] .

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x'gt k|rlnt sfg"g jdf]lhd ;DalGwt ;]jfdf k|j]z ubf{ g} nf]s;]jf cfof]un] cfjZos k|lt:kwf{ u/fO{ 5gf}6 u/L lgo'lQmsf] nflu l;kmfl/z ePkl5 sd{rf/L lgo'lQm x'G5 . / k|j]z u/]sf] ;DalGwt ;]jf ;d"xsf] ;dfg kbdf lgo'lQm, ;?jf jf kb:yfkgf x'+bf slx st} hf+rsf] k|s[of ckgfpg] k|rng g]kfndf g k|zf;g, g k//fi6«, g sfg"g jf cGo ;]jfdf g} 5 . t;y{ ;dfg ;]jf, ;d"xsf] kbdf hfg yk hf+r lbg' kg]{, cltl/Qm of]Uotf k'/f ug'{kg]{ dfu ug'{ slx gePsf] rng g} xf] / of] ljifodf ljjfb ug'{ j'l4dfgL / Goflos b]lvb}g .

ctM k//fi6«sf clwsf/Lx? tyf lhDd]jf/ g]t[Tjn] >d ;xrf/Lsf] lgo'lQm ljz'4 k|zf;lgs ljifo /x]sf] a'emL o;df hfg] clwsf/Lx? lghfdtL sd{rf/L /x]sf]n] of] lgo'lQm k|s[ofnfO{ clt ;fdfGo ?kdf :jLsfg'{ kb{5 . ;a}sf] ;sf/fTds ;xof]un] dfq >d ;xrf/Lsf] e"ldsf / sfo{;Dkfbgsf] k|efjsf/Ltfsf] clej[l4 a9fpb} /fHon] cGt/f{l6«o >d s'6gLlt dfkm{t ljz]if pknJwL xfl;n ug{ ;lsG5 . o;sfnflu Pp6f dGqfnon] cGo dGqfnosf] sfo{If]qdf x:tIf]k ug'{ x'b}g / cGt/dGqfno 4Gbsf] a]nf k|wfgdGqLsf] sfof{non] dWo:ytf ug]{, oL kbx?sf nflu ;flRrs} laz]if of]Uotf cfjZos eP ;DalGwt P]g sfg'gdf g} ;+zf]wg u/L laz]if dfkb08 :jLs[[t u/L lgo'lQmsf] k|s[[of nfu" ug'{ laa]szLn x'G5 .

-n]vs M g]kfn ;/sf/sf pk;lrj x'g'x'G5 . khpushkar@gmail.com _

Irregularities and Corruption in Issuance of Driving License

Dear all members and subscriber of Nepal Officers Online,

I am writing about an issue on “Irregularities and Corruption in Issuance of Driving License” As most of you know that recently I am working in Ministry of Labor and Transport Management as a capacity of Under Secretary. Currently I am taking care an investigation case about the involvement of govt. officers in excessive irregularities and corruption in license issuance at Driving License Office, Bagmati, Kathmandu. Actually, this case belongs to National Vigilance Center and also regularly dealt by the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA). Some of the national media and news houses have also aired the issue under priority. It is because the case is not only matter of corruption and irregularities but also concerned with national security threats, so we all true citizen must pay honest attention and contribute to address the issue properly.

Of course, I am having serious threats since I have started the investigation. Just yesterday night, I have received a threat call from a self-claimed powerful people of Ministry of General Administration over telephone, he said that he will take any necessary action or may transfer me somewhere else immediately if I do not give up or quite from the case. He forced me to dismiss the case without any delay because one of the accused officers is his very close friend. However, I am not worried at all and ready to face with any upcoming situation without affecting the spirit and ethics of the investigation. Indeed, we will try our best to find out the truth and reach in logical end of the ongoing case.

Therefore, I would like to request you all to share me the related suggestion, ideas, opinions and facts related to the irregularities and corruption in issuance of Driving License at Kathmandu valley. Kindly share us through emails, phones call or any suitable means in accordance with your convenience.

Once again, I thank you all for your continuous helps and cooperation.

Sincerely,

Krishna Hari Pushkar

(Under Secretary)

Ministry of Labor and Transport Management