The government has annulled the registration of 12 national-level trade unions in the civil service and health service sectors. 

The Department of Labour and Occupational Safety and Health today cancelled the registration of eight trade unions under the Nepal Civil Service Act, 2074 BS and four trade unions under the Nepal Health Service Act, 2053 BS.

The registration of the Nepal Civil Service Employees' Organization, Nepal Civil Service Employees' Union, Nepal National Civil Service Employees' Organization, Nepal Madhesi Civil Service Employees' Forum, Nepal Health Workers' Association, Madhesi Health Workers' Forum Nepal, Unified Government Employees' Organization Nepal and Independent Civil Servants' Organization Nepal under the civil service has been cancelled.

Similarly, the registration of the Nepal Health Workers' Union, Health Workers' Union Nepal, National Health Workers' Association and National Progressive Health Workers' Organization Nepal under the health service has also been cancelled, according to the department's spokesperson Maninath Gop.

The current government had scrapped the provisions related to trade unions in the public service through the Ordinance designed to amend some Nepal Acts , 2083. With the promulgation of that Ordinance by the President, the national-level trade unions in those services became inactive.