The Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Federal Affairs has cancelled the transfer of 857 employees of the Department of Survey in Nepal, reversing decisions made on 23 Ashwin 2083. The transfers involved staff of the Nepal Engineering Service, Survey Group. Following the annulment, the department approved and issued the Employee Transfer Related Criteria, 2083 on Thursday, acting under the ministry’s direct instruction.
Ministry reverses the transfer decisions
The cancellation affects all 857 employees covered by the department’s transfer decisions. The ministry’s action brings those decisions to an end and marks a reversal of the transfers made on 23 Ashwin 2083. The reported employees belong to the Survey Group of the Nepal Engineering Service.
The reports identify the scale and service group involved, but do not give individual names or details of employees’ original and proposed postings. They also do not specify in the information provided how the annulment will affect each employee’s day-to-day assignment. The central development is that the department’s earlier transfer decisions have been cancelled by the ministry.
The decisions had been described in reports as controversial. The ministry’s intervention was followed by an instruction to the Department of Survey to establish transfer-related criteria. The department then approved and issued the new criteria on Thursday, linking the cancellation to a formal step on how employee transfers are to be handled.
New criteria issued under ministry instruction
The Department of Survey approved and issued the Employee Transfer Related Criteria, 2083 after receiving the ministry’s direct instruction. The criteria are intended to provide a framework for transfers, according to the reports. The available information does not detail the criteria’s provisions, including how postings will be assessed or whether the department will make a fresh round of transfers under the new rules.
The sequence is significant: the ministry first cancelled the 857 transfers and then directed the department to issue transfer-related criteria. The department’s approval and publication of the document followed on Thursday. The reports do not provide a separate timetable for further decisions or say whether any of the cancelled transfers will be reconsidered.
For the employees affected, the cancellation means the transfer decisions made on 23 Ashwin 2083 no longer stand. The new criteria provide the department with a policy document for handling transfers, but details about its implementation and any resulting postings have not been specified in the information available.
What is known about the decision
The reported facts establish three key points: the Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Federal Affairs cancelled transfers covering 857 Survey Department employees; the employees are from the Nepal Engineering Service, Survey Group; and the department issued the Employee Transfer Related Criteria, 2083, under direct ministry instruction.
The reports do not identify the specific grounds for cancelling the transfers or provide details of the objections that made them controversial. They also do not list affected offices, destinations or individual cases. Further details about how the new criteria will be applied were not included in the available reports.
The immediate outcome is therefore clear, even as implementation details remain unreported: the earlier transfer decisions have been annulled, and the Department of Survey has issued new criteria at the ministry’s direction. Any subsequent postings or decisions concerning the 857 employees will depend on how the department applies the criteria.
