Govt aims to implement it in Tarai, Kathmandu Valley

Kathmandu, November 28:

Officials at the Ministry of Home Affairs, including the Home Minister and Home secretary, discussed the nitty-gritty of a special security action plan during meetings held at the ministry today, a source at the ministry said, adding that the meeting went on till late in the evening.

The meetings came immediately after Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala directed Home

Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula to come up with a security plan.

The source, however, said the officials had been working for five days to give final touches to a draft of the special security action plan, which will be implemented in three districts of the Valley and eight “sensitive districts” of the Tarai.

It said the ministry is also having consultations with security experts working in different International Non-governmental Organisations to prepare the draft of the security plan. The ministry is also holding talks with the Indian government at the bureaucratic level to forge cooperation for maintaining security along the border.

Though the draft is yet to be finalised, the security plan will propose deployment of “Armed Police Units” under the Police Headquarters and zonal offices to eight sensitive districts of the Tarai and in the Valley. It will also suggest increasing the strength of the police in Tarai belt and relocation of some police stations. “The policy is to go tough against several Madhesi outfits and other outfits in the Valley,” a police official said, insisting anonymity. Besides the immediate action-plan, the ministry is also working to formulate a long-term security policy.