Kathmandu, Apr. 18
The government has
revoked the decision made by former Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Rabi
Lamichhane regarding the National Identity Card (NIC). The meeting of the Cabinet
held on Tuesday decided to scrap the decision made by the former DPM to give
personal data and state security to a private company.
He had made amendments to
the procedures made for interdependence and verification of the details of
citizens in a secure manner through the management information system related
to the NIC.
Speaking to the media
after the meeting of the Council of Ministers, Government Spokesperson and
Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Rekha Sharma, said that
the procedures approved by the then Home Minister Lamichhane to award a
contract to a private company for the management of NIC has been cancelled.
The government has also decided
to form a committee to investigate how the procedure was made and passed.
She also said that the
government has decided to form a separate committee to study the procedure and that
the government has opened the plotting of the land which has been restricted
for some years.
According to her, the
government has decided to approve the first amendment of the Land Use Regulation-2023.
With this, land plotting and sale has been opened. Minister Sharma said that in
absence of the land use regulations, real estate transactions have been
stopped, and distribution of land in inheritance has also been affected so the Council
of Ministers has decided to approve the amendments in the Land Use Regulations-2023.
Minister Sharma informed
that it has been decided to form a committee under the coordination of Deputy
Prime Minister and Defense Minister, Purna Bahadur Khadka, to solve the problem
related to land acquisition in Khokana on the Kathmandu Terai Fast Track. The committee has three months to solve the
problem.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 19 April 2023.
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