Kathmandu, April 2

Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa today launched the 82-point Home Administration Reform Work Plan, 2018, amidst an event organised here.

The work plan has been launched to create favourable environment for development work in the country.

The work plan has given priority to promoting national unity and controlling crime, black marketing and corruption. It has also provisioned quick service delivery to citizens. The work plan includes reforms in policies, organisational reforms and transformation, management of human resources, service delivery and good governance, effectiveness of security management, home administration based on information technology, reinforcement of immigration and border administration, enhancement of disaster risk management capability, promotion of discipline and work plan implementation, investigation and evaluation.

The aim of the work plan is to mobilise all the bodies of the home administration to be public-oriented, result-oriented and to gear up to meet national aims. It also aims to strengthen internal security management and reinforce national unity, social goodwill, tolerance and cooperation.

The work plan will also help reform the federal police law, citizenship law, prison law, social behaviour reformation law, national identity management law. The work plan has given priority to the establishment of one security post in each local body in order to manage human resources and to use them for disaster management.

Similarly, the work plan aims to create special task force to control organised crime. As per the work plan security mechanism will be set in such a way that police will reach the incident site within ten minutes.

A special task force will be formed to control the transportation of arms and ammunition and their use. In order to maintain security in the major cities, the work plan envisages installing more CCTV cameras in Kathmandu and other cities of the country.

The reform plan has provisions to keep a check on vehicles plying the roads of Kathmandu and the major highways of the country through radar gun to implement integrated traffic management plan. Similarly, vehicle fitness centre will be established in every 100 kilometres on the highways. The work plan will also help manage security and vehicle parking hassles on the premises of Singha Durbar.

It has also sought to make reformations in distributing citizenship. Citizenship certificates will be distributed through CIMS software from all district administration offices and area administration offices in the country.

To maintain security, it has aimed to purchase automatic E-gate with provisions of biometric services to be kept at Tribhuvan International Airport. The work plan further paves the way to make guidelines for the use of government vehicles during public holidays.

“Feeling of political transformation is only possible through development, prosperity, good governance and discipline. Security and good governance are very crucial to meet public expectations and achieve national goals. The main task of the home administration is to maintain peace and security in the country. For this, our structures have been extended from the central to the local bodies and there is a big challenge for the government to coordinate with all these extended bodies, along with various other divisions, to meet public expectations,” said Minister Thapa.