{"id":5332,"date":"2016-06-30T16:14:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T10:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=5332"},"modified":"2016-06-30T16:14:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T10:29:54","slug":"we-need-to-amend-law-to-pave-way-for-lgbti-psc-chairman-mainali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/we-need-to-amend-law-to-pave-way-for-lgbti-psc-chairman-mainali\/","title":{"rendered":"We need to amend law to pave way for LGBTI: PSC Chairman Mainali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kathmandu (Pahichan) June 30 &#8211; Chairman of Public Service Commission (PSC) Umesh Prasad Mainali has said there is no reservation seats for sexual and gender minority in the government services. He said members of this community have only option of open competition. \u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to Pahichan Radio Program, Mainali said reservation process will begin only after the constitutional provisions are translated into legal framework. \u201cWe need to amend the public service act to give reservation to gender and sexual minority,\u201d Mainali said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said Commission would effectively implement the law if government amends it paving way for LGBTI.\u00a0 He said reservation is not for always and it is being misused.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe provision of reservation should not be applicable in section officer, joint secretary and other posts,\u201d said Mainali.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPeople who fight in reservation at a time should make his qualification to fight in open category,\u201d he said. He said in context of Nepal, the provision of reservation is failing to give desired result.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Management of diversity:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mainali said reservation is a first step of managing diversity in the society. He said reservation and positive discrimination will not give the long-term solution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said management of diversity could be an alternative and permanent solution. \u201cPositive discrimination and reservation is a first step of diversity management it is not a ceiling,\u201d said Mainali.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The management of diversity could manage sexual orientation, age, individual and other things,\u201d he said adding that management could be different in different demography.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said there are problems in civil service in everywhere and it could be settled through management of diversity.\u00a0 \u201cWe have a lot of weaknesses, diversity could address them, and they could be settled through collective efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu (Pahichan) June 30 &#8211; Chairman of Public Service Commission (PSC) Umesh Prasad Mainali has said there is no reservation seats for sexual and gender minority in the government services. He said members of this community have only option of open competition. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":5333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[621,490,3],"tags":[502,1056,715,1057],"class_list":["post-5332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-slider","category-society","tag-lgbti","tag-public-service-commission","tag-sexual-orientation","tag-umesh-prasad-mainali"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5334,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions\/5334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}