Kathmandu. The Ministry of Finance does not seem to have shown much interest even though a week has passed since the deadline given by the employees of the Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) to make demands.
Employees at Sebon are frustrated as the Ministry of Finance has been delaying their deadlines. At the same time, they are planning to take action again.
The employees of Sebon had called off their agitation from November 24 after the Ministry of Finance assured that their demands would be met. It was agreed that the SEBON Board of Directors would write to the Ministry of Finance to address the demands of the employees.
Sebon employees had set a deadline for their demands to be met by mid-November. They had threatened to halt the work again if their demands were not met by mid-November.
However, as the Board of Directors of SEBON sent a letter to the Ministry of Finance and Mahesh Acharya, the chief joint-secretary of the Financial Sector Management and Corporation Coordination Division of the ministry, was out of the country for a week.
Joint Secretary Acharya had returned to work last Sunday. He went to the Ministry of Finance and discussed the activities being carried out by the employees of Sebon regarding their demands. “He had said that the process will now go ahead. However, the ministry has not made much progress so far,” said Ajay Dhungana, president of Sebon Employees’ Union. However, not much progress has been made this week. ’
Dhungana said that his friends have started raising the issue that the employees of Sebon should not remain silent. “We will wait till tomorrow,” he said, adding, “If our demands are not met, we will be compelled to protest again from Sunday or Monday.” ’
Employees unions and independent employees unions operating in Sebon have canceled the pawn and are currently continuing their 1-hour sit-in every day. They continued their sit-in programme for the 66th day today.
The employees of Sebon had started the protest from September 23 disagreeing with the decision of the Ministry of Finance (Revenue Secretary) on September 16 and the letter dated September 19 demanding the scrapping of the work procedure related to the services and facilities of the employees of Sebon and taking the consent of the Ministry of Finance on the issue of creating financial liability for the employees.
