Kathmandu. Santosh Narayan Shrestha, chairman of the Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON), has started pleading with the employees to stop the protest.
After being barred from entering the office, Chairman Shrestha called some employees to meet them almost every day and started pleading to stop the protest. The agitating employees, however, are adamant about their demands. They have been suggesting Chairman Shrestha to resign and pave the way if they could not do anything.
Employees of Sebon have been protesting for about one and a half months over the reduction of facilities by the Ministry of Finance. The employees have been protesting since the Ministry of Finance wrote a letter to the Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) on September 2. The employees of the Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) have demanded that the revenue secretary-level decision to scrap the working procedure issued by the Board of Directors of the Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) should be revoked immediately.
A meeting of the Board of Directors held at the Ministry of Finance on Thursday ended inconclusively. “Chairman Shrestha has not been able to convince the government and the directors,” said one of the employees. And ask them to stop the movement. But how can we stop the agitation until our demands are guaranteed?”
Ajay Dhungana, president of the Sebon Employees’ Union, said that there is little possibility of Shrestha finding a way out of the latest situation as the government and the directors have not listened to him. “We have been in agitation for so many days. ’
According to Dhungana, there is no other option for Shrestha to resign. “I have heard that he has told his friends that he is not in a position to resign,” he said.
During the discussion that lasted for 2 hours in Sebon yesterday, Chairman Shrestha urged the employees to stop the agitation by promising to get a decision from the Board of Directors to go to the legal remedy as soon as possible. However, the employees had made it clear to Chairman Shrestha that they would decide whether to stop the agitation only after the decision of the Board of Directors.
