Cabinet appoints deputy governors

The cabinet has today appointed Gopal Kafle and Maha Prasad Adhikari as the deputy governors in the central bank.
Accordig to the Nepal Rastra Bank Act, the central bank should have two deputy governors. But both the posts remained vacant after deputy governor Bir Bikram Rayamajhi retired from the post last week on December 21.
Earlier, another senior deputy governor Krishna Bahadur Manandhar has retired nine months ago. Manandhar has also taken charge as acting governor for almost two years, when the then governor Bijayanath Bhattarai was suspended after the government anti-graft body filed a case against him.
Kafle and Adhikari both were executive directors at the central bank. Kafle was the spokesperson and heading micro credit department and Adhikari was heading the regulation department.
The central bank governor Dr Yubraj Khaitwada had recommended four names -- Gopal Kafle, Maha Prasad Adhikari, Bhaskarmani Gyawali and Gokulram Thapa -- for two posts.