Surkhet, Sept. 4 -- Tek Narayan Pandey, chief secretary of Karnali Province, was transferred to the Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation in Kathmandu on July 20. A day later secretary of the chief minister's office Laxmi Kumar Basnet was deputed as acting chief secretary of the province.

Barely, a month later, on August 25, however, the federal government transferred Basnet to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation in Kathmandu, leaving the offices of the chief minister and the council of ministers without both the chief secretary and secretary.

The provincial government has requested Basnet to postpone his move to Kathmandu until the arrival of a new chief secretary.

"We have requested Basnet ...