KATHMANDU: Kathmandu Metropolitan City Acting Mayor Sunita Dangol has expressed expectations that newly appointed Chief Administrative Officer Muktiram Aryal will provide capable leadership to ensure the effective implementation of the policies, plans, and programs approved for the current fiscal year, promote good governance, strengthen intergovernmental coordination, and fulfill the expectations of metropolitan residents.
Welcoming Aryal to her office during a courtesy meeting after he assumed office on Wednesday, Dangol said that coordinated and result-oriented leadership is essential for employee mobilization, administrative management, and improved public service delivery.
“Effective service delivery requires a disciplined and dignified administrative system supported by coordinated leadership,” she said. “Major projects such as the construction of multi-storey parking facilities, the development of a mega hall at Bhrikutimandap, and the transfer of properties due to the metropolis under previous agreements with the Government of Nepal will require strong coordination with the federal government.”
She also emphasized the need to foster cooperation and facilitation between employees and elected representatives and instructed that projects progressing slowly should be accelerated.
“I believe your tenure will be productive for the people of Kathmandu,” Dangol said. “Your contribution to enhancing the public image of the metropolitan city will be remembered.”
Aryal joined the civil service as a section officer in 2009, was promoted to under-secretary in 2016, and became a joint secretary in 2023. He had been serving as the Chief Administrative Officer of Pokhara Metropolitan City for the past year. Before that, he served in the same capacity at Resunga Municipality in Lumbini Province.
He was transferred from Pokhara Metropolitan City to Kathmandu Metropolitan City through a Cabinet decision made on August 4, 2026.
Speaking at an introductory program held the same day, Aryal said he would lead the metropolitan administration with the goal of further establishing Kathmandu as a learning center for local governance, self-governance, development, and management.
“Many local governments are still learning from Kathmandu,” he said. “We must make the metropolis’s other works worthy of learning and replication as well. For this, employee neutrality is our core principle, and there must be no weakness in conduct and professional ethics.”
He also stressed that programs should be implemented through collective decision-making based on the choices of service users, saying such an approach would benefit all stakeholders.
Previously, Saroj Guragain had served as the Chief Administrative Officer of Kathmandu Metropolitan City. He retired compulsorily on August 4, 2026, after reaching the age limit for civil service.
