Even after a year since the people’s government took over the reins of power, important appointments remain unfulfilled. It seems the education and foreign affairs sectors are the worst hit by this absurd delay. Take for instance the appointments of vice-chancellors and other administrative staff of the universities. Some varsities do not even have registrars at present. In the absence of key university officials, students have suffered the most since no administrative work is possible without their signatures. All appeals to the government by the educationists, teachers and students over the past year have clearly fallen on deaf ears. Similar setback has been caused in appointing 14 ambassadors and no progress has been made towards finalising the establishment of three new embassies — in Australia, Denmark and South Korea.

Unfortunately, even the Civil Service Bill, 2063, has not yet been deliberated upon by the House of Representatives. Due to which the entire Public Service Commission is now virtually defunct. The Commission could not even conduct the preliminary examination for the applicants. Clearly, conflicts between and among the members of the eight-party governing combine and increasing pressures from certain informal quarters at the decision-making level is responsible for this sorry state of affair. Now that an interim government has been formed, it can only be hoped that the new cabinet would promptly make the appointments. If not, the country stands to lose a lot at home and abroad.