Lok Sewa Aayog

Lok Sewa Aayog (लोक सेवा आयोग  - Public Service Commission -PSC) was established in 1951 AD (2008) as a government employment recruitment institution in Nepal. Its central office is located in Anamnagar, Kathmandu. The official website of Loksewa is psc.gov.np. and Loksewa Online Application links psconline.psc.gov.np

The Commission (Lok Sewa) is involved in selecting meritorious candidates required by the government of Nepal for various vacant posts in the civil service, Nepal Police, Nepal Army, Nepal Armed Police Force, and other government bodies. The continuity of the Public Service Commission (PSC) has never been hindered since its inception. The present constitution of Nepal 2015 (2073 BS) has designated the public service commission as an independent constitutional body.

Formation:

The constitution of the Public Service Commission, in sub-section (1) of Article 242 of Part 23 of the Constitution of Nepal, provides that the commission will have a chairman and four other members. The President shall appoint the chairman and members of the Public Service Commission on the recommendation of the Constitutional Council.

At the time of such appointment, at least fifty percent of the commission's members shall be from among the persons who have been in government service for twenty years or more. The remaining members shall be from science, technology, art, literature, law, and public administration. There is a provision to be appointed from among the people who have achieved fame through research, teaching, or any other important work in sociology or other fields of national life.

In this way, before the appointment, there is a provision for a parliamentary hearing to be held through a fifteen-member joint committee following federal law, consisting of members of both houses of the federal parliament.

 According to the constitution's provisions, there will be only 5 officers, including the chairman. Since more officers were working in the Commission before this constitution came into effect, clause (3) of Article 301 of the Constitution of Nepal provides for appointing the previous seven officers.

Functions, Duties, and Rights:

Article 243 of the Constitution of Nepal stipulates that the Public Service Commission must conduct examinations to select suitable candidates for appointment to civil service positions. The said article clarifies that "civil service post" means soldier, Nepal Police, or Armed Police Force, the service post of Nepal's employees, and not the post of civil service, except for other service posts prescribed under the Act. It has been clarified that all other service posts of the Government of Nepal are included.

In addition to civil service posts, the Public Service Commission is provisionally responsible for conducting the written examination for the posts of the Nepal Army, Nepal Police, Armed Police Force, Nepal, other federal government services, and organized organizations.

In addition to the above duties and responsibilities, there is a provision to consult the Public Service Commission on the following subjects:

• Regarding the general principles to be followed for promotion to posts in the Nepal Army, Nepal Police, Armed Police Force, Nepal, and other federal government services;

• Regarding the law relating to the conditions of service of the service employees of any organized organization and the general principle to be adopted in the promotion and departmental action in such service posts;

• Regarding the law relating to conditions of federal civil service;

• Regarding the principles to be adopted in the appointment, promotion, and departmental action in the federal civil service or post;

• on the suitability of candidates for appointment to posts in the Federal Civil Service for a period exceeding six months;

• Eligibility of the candidate on transfer or promotion from one type of federal civil service post to a different kind of federal civil service post or from other government services to the federal civil service or on transfer or transfer from a state civil service post to a federal civil service post or from a federal civil service post to a state civil service post. On the subject;

• Regarding the permanent transfer or promotion of employees who are in a position that does not require the consultation of the Public Service Commission to a position that requires the consultation of the Public Service Commission; and

• Regarding the departmental punishment given to the employees of the Federal Civil Service.

Candidate Selection Process:

According to the Public Service Commission Act, 2066, the Commission will select suitable candidates through one or more of the following methods:

a) Written Examination,

b) Practical Examination,

c) Interview and

d) Other methods prescribed by the Commission.

The commission prepares an annual schedule for the candidate selection process. It also mentions the details of the selection process at various stages, starting with determining the percentage of vacancies.

After receiving the request to fill the vacant post from the concerned body, the Public Service Commission determines the number of posts to fill according to the relevant laws and regulations.

This way, after the number of posts is determined, the Commission's website will publish weekly bulletins every Wednesday and advertisements in the Gorkhapatra National Daily. At the time of advertisement, applications are invited with a deadline of 21 days and an additional 7 days for conducting the open internal competitive examination. After the ad for the open and internal competitive examination is published, the online application for the advertised post is collected from the Commission's regional directorate, zonal office, and application management center. After scrutinizing the applications received for the advertised posts, admit cards are issued to the candidates to join the examination.

In order to maintain fairness and accuracy in the selection process, the Commission has adopted a policy of neutrality by adopting a system in which the officials involved in the written examination and interview cannot know each other's work and actions in preparing question papers, revising question papers, examining answer sheets, and conducting interviews.

In the process of carrying out the said tasks, the experts of the relevant subject will be sent to prepare the question papers required for examining the relevant service group and post. The set of question papers will be received secretly, from the sets of raw question papers, they will again prepare at least 5 sets of preparatory question papers for the other experts of the same subject. The set will be kept with a separate signal number. During the examination, a set of question papers will be selected by the Honorable Chairman of the Commission based on the signal number.

The highest confidentiality is maintained in the exam, as it is a practice to keep the first code in the answer sheets received after conducting the written examination, and assign the second code to the official of another branch.

In this way, the answer sheets received after the second code are sent to the experts/experts of the relevant subjects designated by the Honorable Chairman for examination. The score of the answer sheets received after the test is tabulated and decoded based on the code, and the result is published.

Experts in the relevant subject will interview candidates selected for the interview. The marks given by one expert will be kept secret so that the others will not see them. Such marks will be opened only during the candidate's merit order and recommendation. In addition, the marks obtained by the candidate in the written test will not be known during the interview and will be sent only at the time of merit order and recommendation.

The Public Service Commission has been updating the list of experts periodically for the commission's work, such as question paper preparation, question paper revision, answer book examination, interviews, psychological personality test, curriculum development, etc.

The commission appoints them secretly for a specific type of selection work. The commission has already started the Screening Test process for certain posts, in which candidates are more involved. It has been arranged that only those who pass the preliminary stage examination can participate in the main examination.

After the final selection of candidates from the open competition, in the case of gazetted civil service posts and posts under the Ministry of General Administration and separate laws and regulations, there is a provision to recommend to the agency that administers such services. If the candidate chooses the same office, there is a provision that the one with the higher qualification should be recommended first.

When sending a letter of recommendation to the relevant body for an appointment, there is a provision to send one copy of the candidate's application form and copies of the certificates submitted.

In the case of security agencies and other government services/organized organizations, the tasks from determining the percentage to conducting the written examination are done according to the abovementioned procedures.

Address:

Lok Sewa Aayog Anamnagar (Central Office):

• Location: Anamnagar, Kathmandu, Nepal, Post Box No. 8979
• Telephone: +977-1-4771488, +977-4771481, +977-4771494
• Email: [email protected]
•  Website: www.psc.gov.np
• Online Application Link: www.psconline.psc.gov.np

Lok Sewa Aayog Kathmandu:

• Location: New Baneshwor, Kathmandu
• Telephone: 01-4115833, 01-4115831, 4115834
• Fax: 01-4115835
• Email: [email protected]

 Lok Sewa Aayog Pokhara:

• Location: Pardi, Pokhara
• Telephone: 061-463145
• Fax: 061-463506
• Email: [email protected]

Lok Sewa Aayog Hetauda:

• Location: Dhankuta Office
• Telephone: 057-520302
• Fax: 057-526822
• Email: [email protected]

 Lok Sewa Aayog Baglung:

• Location: Baglung
• Telephone: 068-522647
• Fax: 068-520147
• Email: [email protected]

Lok Sewa Aayog Jaleshwor:

• Location: Jaleshwor
• Telephone: 044-520147
• Email: [email protected]

Lok Sewa Aayog Khotang:

• Location: Diktel, Khotang
• Telephone: 036-420757
• Fax: 036-520177

Lok Sewa Aayog Butwal:

• Location: Butwal, Rupandehi
• Telephone: 071-540207, 071-551328
• Fax: 071-547807
• Email: [email protected]

 Lok Sewa Aayog Dang:

• Location: Tulsipur, Dang
• Telephone: 082-522825
• Fax: 082-520013
• Email: [email protected]

Lok Sewa Aayog Mahendranagar:

• Location: Mahendranagar, Kanchanpur
• Telephone: 099-521209
• Fax: 099-523992
• Email: [email protected]

Lok Sewa Aayog Dipayal:

• Location: Dipayal, Doti
• Telephone: 094-440147
• Fax: 094-440178
• Email: [email protected]

 Lok Sewa Aayog Surkhet:

• Location: Birendranagar, Surkhet
• Telephone: 083-520106, 083-525506
• Fax: 083-521803
• Email: [email protected]

 Lok Sewa Aayog Jumla:

• Location: Jumla
• Telephone: 087-520008
• Email: [email protected]

 Lok Sewa Aayog Dhankuta:

• Location: Dhankuta Office
• Telephone: 026–520130, 026–520151,
• Fax: 026–520151
• Email: [email protected]

Collegenp regularly updates the Lok Sewa Aayog notices, such as the Result, Exam, Bulletin, Syllabus, Vacancies, Sifaris, notice, etc.