Home Ministry focuses priority on elections, law and order

Kathmandu: Home Minister Om Prakash Aryal has said that the country was heading towards polls, adding that the law and order situation in the country was back to normal.

Sharing the major achievements obtained in the past month after assuming the portfolio of Home Ministry, Home Minister Aryal said that support for the decreased families, management and rehabilitation of the injured persons of the Gen-Z protests and reconstruction efforts of the damaged physical properties have been initiated.

Home Minister Aryal stated that effective progress was achieved in public service delivery, good governance, disaster preparedness, disaster response, relief and rehabilitation tasks.

He said the security agencies and stakeholders remained proactive to maintain a law and order situation against the backdrop of deteriorating condition of security.

As part of the process to declare martyrs to those killed in the Gen-Z protests, the government so far has collected details of 76 persons through the district administration offices, Aryal added.

Similarly, a Gen-Z support unit and facilitation secretariat has been setup at the ministry to handle and address the grievances of the youth generation.

Technical committee has been formed for the collection of loss and damage in the public and private properties happened during the Gen-Z protests.

Of the total 452 police posts damaged in the protests, 401 units were reconstructed with support from the Nepal Police and local communities, while remaining others are in the reconstruction stage.

Likewise, the ministry said that 161 convicted ones of different charges were nabbed and two individuals along with some weapons and their magazines were held.

Furthermore, 594 weapons looted or lost during the Gen-Z protests were obtained and some other weapons still missing would be searched by unveiling a detailed plan of action, Minister Aryal stated.

Minister Aryal also shared that the draft of the Nepal Citizenship Regulation (Fourth Amendment) has been prepared and the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) has been made fully active for the control of financial crimes happened under political protection.

According to Aryal, an integrated election security planning taskforce has been formed under the coordination of the Chief of Security Coordination Division of the ministry to plan for the security measures of the upcoming elections scheduled for March 5.