(1) A civil servant can be assigned to another position only in the work of the same agency from the ministry, secretariat, commission, department or office in which he is employed. In this way, a job cannot be assigned for a period of more than three months in a year. But in training, seminars, etc., work can be done for more than that period.
(2) When any civil servant is assigned to work in an agency that does not have a civil service position and in an approved temporary position, or when returning to work before the end of the work period, the consent of the Ministry of General Administration must be obtained. The duration of such paper shall not exceed one year at a time. However, the approval of the Ministry of General Administration is not required to hire gazetted employees.
(2a) If an employee has to be assigned to work for one year in the work of election, census, surveying team, mining survey and the work of commissions and committees of a permanent nature, the agency that assigns the work must take the consent of the relevant agency and the Ministry of General Administration to assign the work.
(2b) Notwithstanding anything written elsewhere in this section, the employee who is working in the position of department head or office head of any office shall not be assigned to work in any other project or agency.
(2c) Notwithstanding anything written elsewhere in this section, the Ministry of General Administration may depute an employee with authority in a group other than the Ministry of General Administration to work in any agency in a manner consistent with the group, and if any employee is required to be deputed to work in an inter-agency task to obtain the expert services of a civil servant. The Ministry of General Administration can employ employees for a maximum period of three months with the agreement of the employing agency and the hiring agency.
(2d) Notwithstanding anything written elsewhere in this section, an employee appointed in accordance with sub-section (7) of section 18 shall not be assigned to work for more than three months in a year until the said period is completed.
(3) In contravention of sub-sections (1), (2), (2A), (2B) and (2D) any civil servant employedIf assigned, the amount of salary, allowances and other benefits received by the civil servant assigned to such a job during that period will be collected from the appointing official as government dues and departmental action will be taken.
(4) Notwithstanding anything written in this section, when the district level offices are transferred to the local level, the government of Nepal may appoint civil servants working in such district level offices.
(5) According to sub-section (4), the position of the employee assigned to work will be in the ministry that operates his service, group or sub-group.
(6) The employees appointed in accordance with sub-section (4) may be candidates for promotion in their former service, group or sub-group and if they are gazetted employees, they may be potential candidates for promotion in the district in which they are working.
(6A) Notwithstanding anything written elsewhere in this section, an employee employed in the post of a specific category of service mentioned in sub-section (2) of section 6 can only be employed in the post of a specific category of the same service. However, the commission, task force or any other work of a similar nature established by the Government of Nepal shall not be considered to be an obstacle to the work.
(7) Other arrangements related to work shall be as prescribed.