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Yuvraj Kattel, Director General of the National Identity Card and Registration Department, said that it is difficult to maintain skilled manpower in the field of information technology, including computer engineers, in government offices.
He said that out of 15 vacancies in the department, 10 engineers left their jobs, some went abroad and some entered other fields, and 5 people are working. He complained that the lack of skilled manpower was creating a problem to make registration and printing of identity cards effective.
On Friday, during the discussion held by the House of Representatives' State Order and Governance Committee on matters related to the National Identity Card, Director General Kattel said that the lack of resources and manpower was the reason for the delay in printing the identity card and the general confusion about it. There is work to be done, but there is not enough incentive for them," Kattel said. Six .'
salary, Due to the fact that the facilities and incentives are not attractive, the people in the IT sector are not interested in this and even those who have entered the government service leave their jobs and migrate abroad. Meanwhile, Nepal Communist Party (UML) Member of Parliament Raghuji Pant also gave an example of his own nephew who is studying for a degree in IT and earns three lakh rupees a month by staying at home.
"What we need to understand now is that IT experts do not work on the salary of a branch officer or a deputy secretary," MP Pant said, "If they do not get a job according to their capacity, they will not stay here even if they live". Keeping this in mind, the government should make a policy, pay them according to their ability.'
Director General Kattel informed that details of more than 16.5 million citizens have been collected so far through the National Identity Management Information System. So far, more than 6 million ID cards have been printed and 5.5 million cards have been sent to different districts. However, he said that only 20 lakh cards have been distributed so far. He claimed that work is being done rapidly in Jhapa, Chitwan, Kanchanpur, Morang and Kathmandu to make the distribution of identity cards effective across the country. He also said that since the settlements are scattered in Mugu, Dolpa and Humla, the work of collecting the details is pending.
