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Government Orders Stricter Asset Declaration Compliance, Online Filing and Recovery of Unpaid Fines from Public Servants

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Summary:

Nepal has directed federal, provincial and local authorities to tighten enforcement of mandatory asset declarations, including collecting unpaid fines from retiring officials, improving record security and moving asset-report submissions toward online systems.

The Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives, Federal Affairs and General Administration, in a notice dated 2083/03/17 (1 July 2026), instructed government offices and local levels to implement a decision forwarded by the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA). The decision followed review of the National Vigilance Centre’s FY 2081/82 Asset Declaration Monitoring Report, which identified public officeholders and employees who had failed to submit mandatory asset declaration forms within the prescribed period.

Under the CIAA-backed measures, employees who reach mandatory retirement or leave service through resignation during the current fiscal year must submit their current-year asset declaration when processing their pension entitlement through the appropriate National Kitabkhana—Civil Service, Teacher or Police—or other concerned authority. The directive also says public servants who have failed to pay asset-declaration fines from previous years should have those outstanding amounts recovered as government dues when their pension documents are processed.

Federal, provincial and local governments are instructed to conduct stronger public-awareness programmes on the legal obligation to submit asset declarations. The National Kitabkhana offices, Offices of the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers, and local governments must also ensure proper management and secure preservation of sealed asset-declaration envelopes. The National Kitabkhana is further asked to initiate arrangements to receive asset declaration forms electronically through online technology.

The directive additionally prioritizes entering asset-declaration data of temporary, contract, daily-wage and politically appointed public personnel into an online software system at all three levels of government. The ministry circulated the CIAA decision to concerned government offices, local governments and the National Kitabkhana units for effective implementation.

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