Kathmandu, June 23 -- Adjustment of government employees at three tiers of government was supposed to end prolonged staff shortages at provincial and local governments.

But instead of solving the problem of staff crunch, the adjustment process appears to have aggravated the situation, as most government staff chose the federal government when they were given options.

Both provincial and local governments are set to suffer more due to staff crunch in the new fiscal year 2019-20, as employees who were deputed there have returned to the offices under the federal government.

Karnali Province, which hosts the country's most remote and impoverished districts, has been failing to attract staff for long and there are fears that it might lose eve...