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Released More Than Rs 90 millions To Distribute Citizenship Certificates
By KTM Metro Reporter
April 3, 2013: after the Home Ministry authorized it, the Secretariat of the Peace Fund released Rs 93.51 millions for the mobile teams to run for distributing citizenships across the 75 districts. The four major political parties such as UCPN-Maoist, NC, CPN-UML and UDMF agreed on distributing voters’ cards based on the citizenship certificates, according to the news in the ‘gorkhaptra’ of today.
In order not to deny anybody the rights to vote, such mobile teams would go to nooks and corners of the country to distribute citizenship certificates. Then the Election Commission sends its staffs to distribute voters’ cards. The district administration under the Home Ministry distributes citizenship certificates.
You can get citizenship certificates when you are 16 but you can votes only when you reach 18. Even after receiving citizenship certificates, you have to wait two years before having the rights to vote in general elections.
USA, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and the EU have put some money in the Peace Fund for financial and technical assistance. The funding has been for completing the peace process. Integration of the Maoist Army into the Nepal Army, formation of Truth and Reconciliation commission, and a Commission on Enforced Disappearance are part of the peace process.
Integration of two armies has been almost completed but instead of forming two different commissions on Truth and Reconciliation, and Enforced Disappearance, the president had issued a single Commission on Truth, Reconciliation, and Enforced Disappearance Ordinance without consulting the victims, and their families.
Human rights organizations including the National Human Rights Commission had criticized the ordinance for it was intended to pardon the perpetrators of human rights violation rather and bringing them to justice, and providing the victims or their families with compensation.
