"You are Fired!"

I will take the finance secretary at his word when he says that the decision to resign was his own. However, reading between the lines, it is clear that he was pressured to leave because of his differences with the leadership at the ministry. This unjustifiable pressure that is all too common in Nepali state of affairs, so much so that people have grown accustomed to, is very disruptive and detrimental to long-term planning and policy implementation, not to mention the economic health of the nation. This incident highlights what the political tradition in Nepal has been and continues to be. The system is brutal to people that are qualified but do not necessarily share the minister’s viewpoint. Pressure to resign and transfers to different districts (saruwa) of qualified individuals, when the government changes are not unheard of. In fact, it is expected! This process not only creates inefficiencies in the bureaucratic process but hinders nation’s progress.
What can be done about this? Well, I think this is a problem that is deeply rooted in the system that we have in place. When you have a system that allows unqualified (in terms of training) MPs to become the leaders of ministries that they do not have much understanding of, married with the eminent threat of their government collapsing, one cannot expect anything other than an individual who is interested in maximizing his/her personal interest. So, my solution would be to adopt a new system—a system where the leader of the country has to be elected by the entire nation, a system where the leader has a term requirement and gets to appoint their own cabinet, a system where MPs cannot be the heads of ministries but only represent the constituency that elected them and fight for their cause.