Dispute over state secretary of Health Ministry remains unsolved

As the amended version of the Law on Civil Service entered into force on January 1, the Civil Service Council (CSC) ordered all ministries, government agencies and government offices of provinces and districts to dismiss their acting heads within a given period of time.

At the beginning of the last year, the government fired former State Secretary of the Ministry of Health D.Ochirbat due to inadequate fulfillment of his responsibilities to administrate the ministry’s operations. The government then appointed E.Sodnomjamts as an acting state secretary of the ministry.

In response to the government’s decision over his dismissal, D.Ochirbat made a complaint to court to review the government’s decision, and the court ruled in favor of D.Ochibat.

The CSC organized civil service exams for selections of new state secretaries of the ministries of health, and roads and transportation on December 29, and Director of the First Central Hospital B.Byambadorj and Head of the Ministry of Roads and Transportation’s Road Policy Implementation and Regulation S.Batbold got first places in the exams.

Chief of Staff of SCS D.Baatarsaikhan said that according to the law, the council selected the two state secretaries and S.Batbold is eligible to be appointed as a state secretary of the Ministry of Roads and Transportation, but the court made a decision that D.Ochirbat has to be appointed as state secretary of the Ministry of Health as his dismissal was unlawful, B.Byambadorj was selected as the new state secretary through the civil servant exam, which is why this issue will be decided by the government.

D.Baatarsaikhan noted as the council has no right to appoint someone as a state secretary and has the right to nominate an individual selected through a civil service exam, the government will make the final decision about who will be appointed as the state secretary of the Ministry of Health.

...D.Baatarsaikhan noted as the council has no right to appoint

someone as a state secretary and has the right to nominate an

individual selected through a civil service exam, the government will make the final

decision...