Foreign travel with govt expense banned

The government on Wednesday banned foreign travel of all officers and employees of state-owned organisations at their institutions' expense. 

All orders on the officers' and employees' foreign travel with the funding of the government have been cancelled until further order, said a notification of the Finance Division.

The government institutions to be covered under this new order include all the ministries, divisions and their subordinate entities, autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies, public sector corporations and state-owned companies.

However, foreign travels can be made at a limited scale subject to approval from the authorities concerned. 

Earlier, the ban on their foreign trips was imposed in the context of post-Covid economic recovery and ongoing global crisis.

Earlier in May, the finance ministry issued an order to bar all officers in government, semi-government, and autonomous organisations alongside government banks and financial institutions from travelling abroad. 

Source: BSS