The distribution of passports at the district administration office has come to a standstill after Ved Bahadur Thapa, chairman of the rural municipality of Kaligand, broke the scanner of the passport branch.
The passport service was stopped after Thapa broke the scanner of the administration saying that due to the token system, it was not time to make the passport of the customer coming from his municipality. Thapa, who reached the administration office for the disaster management meeting on Thursday, received a passport from his municipality. Assistant Chief District Officer Hari Prasad Gayre said that he went to the passport branch to find out about the customer who came to make a
and broke the scanner after a dispute.
"Because the number of customers was high today, the tokens were distributed until tomorrow, the chairman broke the scanner when there was a dispute about some customers' turn not coming on time," Gayre said.
The work of making passports in Gulmi has stopped after the scanner broke. "The broken machine cannot be bought anywhere else, now the work of making passports has been stopped until another machine comes from the department," Assistant Chief District Officer Gayre said, "We are making arrangements to bring it as soon as possible after the department opens." had taken DSP Shankar Pokharel, Information Officer of the District Police Office, said that Thapa apologized in writing to the police and after agreeing to pay the compensation for the broken machine, he handed it over to his relatives at night.
Kaligandaki Rural Municipality is the farthest municipality in the district, so the beneficiaries come to the headquarters only for citizenship, passport and property.
