{"id":429316,"date":"2026-05-04T22:41:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=429316"},"modified":"2026-05-04T22:41:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:56:54","slug":"government-directs-to-operate-fast-track-desk-against-racial-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/05\/04\/429316.html","title":{"rendered":"Government directs to operate &#8216;fast track desk&#8217; against racial discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu: <\/strong>The government has directed the operation of a &#8216;fast track desk&#8217; enquiring about the ongoing sit-in staged at Maitighar under the leadership of Dipa Nepali, and to control incidents of racial discrimination taking place in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sit-in has been staged at Maitighar under the leadership of Dipa, against the discriminatory practice in renting rooms to the Dalit community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such a directive was issued after the discussion between Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens, Sita Badi, Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Sobita Gautam, and Prime Minister Balendra Shah&#8217;s Press and Research Expert, Deepa Dahal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the meeting, Minister Badi said it was a matter of concern that racial discrimination is still taking place in the country despite laws and awareness programmes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, Minister Gautam stressed the need for an efficient mechanism to immediately register complaints related to racial discrimination and to advance the action process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the discussion, Home Secretary Raj Kumar Shrestha was asked to bring a &#8216;fast track desk&#8217; into operation in order to immediately conduct the hearing on complaints related to racial and social discrimination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Home Secretary Shrestha shared that all 77 district administration offices would be instructed to operate such a desk. Sharing that the existing legal provisions are sufficient, he expressed commitment to give priority to the effective implementation of existing laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: The government has directed the operation of a &#8216;fast track desk&#8217; enquiring about the ongoing sit-in staged at Maitighar under the leadership of Dipa Nepali, and to control incidents of racial discrimination taking place in the country. The sit-in has been staged at Maitighar under the leadership of Dipa, against the discriminatory practice in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-429316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429317,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429316\/revisions\/429317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429316"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=429316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}