Home Minister Ramesh Akhtar has said that due to lack of budget in the ministerial allocation for the next fiscal year, his own plans have been missed. Answering the questions raised by the parliamentarians on the allocation of the ministry in the meeting of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, the minister said that due to the lack of resources, it was not possible to plan according to the demand.

The Home Minister said that due to budget limitations, 100% of the demands could not be met. Naturally, our demands and needs are many. But we have limited resources and means. In the midst of that limitation, there is a situation where the available resources and means have to be prioritized and the performance has to be achieved by achieving the maximum achievement,' he said, 'Many of the things to be done within the mentioned basis that I have thought of myself have been left out due to the limitation of resources. It is not possible to do all the work that needs to be done this year. The missing work will have to be implemented gradually in the coming financial years.'

The Home Minister author informed that in the coming fiscal year 2082/83, the total allocation for the Ministry of Home Affairs is two billion eight billion 248.5 million, and one trillion 92 billion 918.7 billion has been allocated for the current and 15.32 billion 98 million for the capital. This amount is more than the allocation of the last financial year. In this, only 190 billion has been allocated for social security and protection. This is 52.3 percent of the total allocation,' he said. 

The Minister of Home Affairs said that since a large amount of money is required for the salary and allowance of the security personnel and other than that, a large amount of money is spent on other mandatory obligations, only the money saved from it can be used for other activities. 

The Home Minister said that the Nepal Police and the Nepal Armed Police Force are working with limited resources and means, and there is a need to develop the necessary infrastructure for both agencies. He said that he has proposed for some infrastructure development within the limits of the available budget in the current financial year. He informed that 400 million has been allocated for the construction of infrastructure in the cost sharing of all three levels. There is a need to upgrade the police station and add an area administration office, there is a demand from all over the country to build such structures and keep temporary police stations, to make the temporary ones permanent and to upgrade the permanent ones. The ministry has put it on priority," he said. "Our policy is to address these demands gradually."

The Home Minister said that the bill regarding Nepal Police and Armed Police Force Nepal has been submitted in the House keeping in mind the need to organize transfers and promotions in security agencies. He emphasized that the House should have a comprehensive discussion and finalize it quickly. 'Vehicles have not been purchased for a long time in both security agencies. There are many old vehicles. Because of this, there has been a problem for the presence of security agencies at the specified time,' he said, 'For the mandatory needs of security agencies, there is a request to allocate 351.1 million for Nepal Police and 21.5 million for Nepal Armed Police Force. However, even this has not fully addressed the needs of the security agencies.'

The National Identity Card is being developed as a basis for service delivery, the Home Minister said. He said that the national identity card was introduced to end the need to show different types of cards in every place to receive services.

The Home Minister said that social security allowance is deposited in the account of the beneficiary, registration and renewal of social security allowance is done at the ward level. 

Mentioning that the relief and rehabilitation of the damage to people's property caused by the earthquake with Doti, Bajhang and Jajarkot as epicenters has been expedited, he said that the government is sensitive to this matter. He informed that the work of detailed damage assessment of the private houses damaged by the earthquake has progressed and so far the detailed damage assessment of 74 thousand 235 houses in the districts affected by the West Nepal earthquake has been completed. "So far, 1 billion 612 million has been provided in Jajarkot, 7 million in Salyan, 105 million in Bajura, 235 million in Bajhang and 3 billion 956 million in other disaster-affected districts," he said.

The Home Minister said that the concept of godown houses has been advanced to store disaster materials at each local level. Arrangements have been made for support from the provincial government and local level for the management of necessary disaster materials. Arrangements have been made to operate warehouses established at the state level through the state government, he said.

Similarly, the Home Minister writer says that the government is sensitive to protecting the minimum human rights by increasing the services needed to keep prisoners safe in prisons. According to the policy of gradually constructing and repairing prison buildings, 35 crores have been allocated for the construction of the central prison building in Nuwakot (for the third phase of work), he said. According to the concept of open prison, the budget has been allocated so that the prisoners will be linked with employment in micro, domestic and small enterprises.