Source:Nepalese Ministry of Home Affairs (Kathmandu)
Posted: Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Most recent follow-up news item: June 6, 2022
The Nepalese minister for communication and information technology, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, has announced that Cabinet had approved the passage to a 2-day weekend in Nepal ("A cabinet meeting on April 26 decided to implement the two-day public holidays in a week effective from May 15 on a trial basis").
Late last month, the Nepal Oil Corporation proposed to the Nepalese Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies that Nepalese weekends be extended to Saturday-Sunday, to reduce fuel consumption (2022-03-29).
A couple of weeks later, the Secretary at the Nepalese Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration, Suresh Adhikari, announced that the passage to 2-day weekends had been discussed at the April 7 Council of Ministers meeting, but that no final decision had yet been made (2022-04-16).
Nepal has observed a one-day weekend on Saturdays, for decades, apart for a brief interval in 2000-2001, when a two-day weekend was tried (2001-01-13).
The idea of a two-day weekend in Nepal resurfaced a decade ago (2009-07-25 and 2009-02-05), and more recently at the end of 2020, when a committee of the Nepalese Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, recommended to the government that it implement a two-day weekly holiday for employees.
Links and References
Below are links to the news stories referred to in the above "Nepalese Change To 2-Day Weekends On May 15" news story, as well as links to subsequents news stories which refer to the present news story.
