KATHMANDU — Nepal government has registered a long-awaited Federal Civil Service Bill in House of Representatives, proposing sweeping reforms to the country’s bureaucracy. The bill outlines major updates to mandatory retirement, pensions, promotions, tenure, and service benefits for civil servants.

The most notable provision in the proposed legislation is the decision to raise the general mandatory retirement age from 58 years to 60 years. Section 57 of the new bill sets 60 as the permanent retirement age for future civil service employees. This shifts away from Section 33 of the Civil Service Act, 1993 (2049 BS), which currently enforces mandatory retirement at 58.

To ease the structural transition and address career progression bottlenecks within the civil service, the bill introduces a specific one-time retirement rule for existing staff.

Civil servants currently in service when the act takes effect will face mandatory retirement upon reaching 55 years of age or completing 30 years of service, whichever occurs first. Officials emphasized that this rule will not apply to future recruits, functioning strictly as a one-time measure for current personnel.