KATHMANDU: It will take some more days for the government to get its full shape as Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is buying time to expand his Cabinet.

According to the Prime Minister Oli's press advisor Pramod Dahal, Prime Minister Oli would not expand the Cabinet today due to his busy schedule.

Earlier, the CPN-UML sources had said that the Prime Minister would induct new ministers from the party as well as other coalition allies after the swearing-in ceremony of newly elected Vice-President Nanda Bahadur Pun this afternoon.

This, however, could not happen as the CPN-UML failed to finalise the names of ministerial nominees from the party.

To accommodate maximum number of coalition partners in the Cabinet, the government is mulling the split of some ministries.

Besides Oli, currently there are 16 ministers, including three Deputy Prime Ministers. Also there are two state ministers in the Oli Cabinet.

Five of them, including both the state ministers, have not been assigned any portfolio.

Prime Oli himself , on the other hand, oversees 14 ministries, including Finance; Land Reforms and Management; Defence; Peace and Reconstruction; Labour and Employment; Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation; Federal Affairs and Local Development; Urban Development; and Information and Communications among others.

Oli was elected Nepal's Prime minister on October 11. He assumed his office the following day.

While forming the government on October 12, Oli had incorporated two Deputy Prime Ministers — Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal Chairman Kamal Thapa and Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum-Democratic Chairman Bijay Kumar Gachhadar — and five ministers — Agni Prasad Kharel, Som Prasad Pandey and Satya Narayan Mandal from CPN-UML, Haribol Gajurel from UCPN-Maoist and Ram Kumar Subba from RPP-Nepal were incorporated in his small Cabinet then.

He expanded the Cabinet incorporating some other ministers, including one more Deputy Prime Minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi from the UCPN-Maoist, from the coalition allies on October 18.