KATHMANDU, Feb. 18 -- The government doctors who are unhappy with the civil servants adjustment process on Sunday announced their new protest program, which includes boycott of work and resignation in mass among other things.
The doctors have rejected a government plan to put them under the provincial and local governments and are demanding that the Civil Servants Adjustment Bill be revised to place them under the federal government, according to the agitating Government Doctors' Association of Nepal (Godan). The bill has already been passed by the lower house of parliament and is currently under consideration in the upper house.
Organizing a press meet on Sunday, Godan announced a new weeklong protest after a phase of their protest ended...