Vacancy announced for Nepal Telecom MD post

July 9, 2016: It was in news that Nepal Telecoms MD selection process in on the way. Today, the committee for the selection of MD for the Government owned telecom operator, Nepal Telecom, has published a vacancy for the post in national dailies like Gorkhapatra, Kantipur. They have given 21 days for the prospective candidates to apply for the post, by submitting application along with their Bio-data. As known earlier, the criteria for the new MD in Nepal Telecom says any personnel of age between 40 to 58, and having experience of 15 years in Nepal Telecom or similar operator or Governmental or semi government organisation with 5 years tenure in senior officer post (8th or 9th level or Managers Level (10th) or First grade and above). 





Tenure of Current MD Mr. Buddhi Prasad Acharya will be completed on Bhadra 20. He was appointed by Sushil Koirala led government, which made the technical groups including engineers to agitate against the decision, as it was the first time in history that NT got a MD from non technical background. He is a charter accountant by profession but of senior rank in the Deputy Managing Director position that time. After 22 days of protest by technical group, a pact was reached between then MOIC secretary, NT MD, Coordinator NTTG and all union heads that paved the way for major decisions in the company including capping, VRS, Company structure. A committee was also formed to recommend on the MD criteria for Nepal Telecom as there was no any criteria before and Government used select among the senior technical DMD’s. Based on the study on technical companies both inside and outside the country, the report from the Tirtha Man Shakya led committee has recommended for the Education qualification to be an Engineer with Masters degree in Management or respective technical subjects for a competitive technical company like Nepal Telecom.