Kathmandu, Feb. 29 -- Answering queries from National Assembly members, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said on September 4 last year that the government was in final preparations to register the federal civil service bill in Parliament.

He claimed that his government had no intention to further delay the bill. "The Cabinet will adopt the bill tomorrow [September 5] and it will be registered in Parliament very soon," he had told the Assembly.

Five months later, appearing before the National Concerns and Coordination of the same chamber, Dahal reiterated that the government was in the final leg to register the bill in Parliament.

"The government is making final preparations to register the bill in Parliament," he told the House Commit...