PALPA: Service seekers have been facing problems after Area Administration Office (AAO), Rampur, in Palpa district, stopped providing citizenship certificate in absence of its chief.

Distribution of citizenship certificate has been halted since the Office Chief Kiran Chandra Subedi was transferred on November 1.

Although more than 90 forms for the citizenship certificate have been collected in the office, it has not been able to distribute citizenship certificate in absence of office chief, Acting Office Chief Binod Bista said

The AAO has responsibility for distributing citizenship certificate to the residents of seven VDCs along with Rampur Municipality. People in remote areas, Bakamlang, Galdha, Jhirubas and Mityal have been mostly hit hard due to the halt in distribution of citizenship.

Chief District Officer (CDO) Baburam Gautam said that he has also received complaints about the problems people have been facing for acquiring citizenship certificate. He said that the Home Ministry has been informed about the problem.