The election for 165 seats in the direct and 110 seats in the proportional representation system of the House of Representatives is being held on 21 Falgun. For that, the Election Commission has already designated 10,967 polling stations and 23,112 polling stations.
What you should know
The government has approved the 'Election Police Recruitment, Selection, Appointment and Mobilization Standards-2082'. The standards have been approved to recruit 149,090 election police officers for the security of the House of Representatives elections scheduled for 21 Falgun.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has approved the criteria for recruitment, selection, appointment and deployment of election police officers with 10 days of training and 30 days of deployment at the workplace.
According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the criteria have been approved for 133,980 to be under the Nepal Police and 133,980 to be deployed under the Armed Police Force (APF).
The temporary recruits will be provided with salary, uniform and other service facilities as per the basic salary scale of the police and armed police personnel. Ration facilities will be provided as per the rate of the concerned district. The expenses for ration, monthly salary and uniform will be provided to the bank account of the concerned person. In addition, Rs. 846 per person will be given as preparation expenses for coming and going after the temporary selection, and Rs. 1,200 will be given as a lump sum for 4 days of lunch.
It is mentioned that the clothing allowance will vary according to the Himalayas, the hills and the Terai/Madhes. The Nepal Police will be provided with blue dangri clothes and a cap. In the case of election police deployed under the armed forces, they should have clothes and caps that match the uniforms of the armed forces.
The manpower deployed under regular security in the election will be given Rs 1,200 as lunch expenses as those given to the election police. The recruitment criteria state that there will be an election police selection and appointment committee under the coordination of the Chief District Officer of the concerned district.
For selection, applications can be submitted to the District Police Office and in the case of the armed forces, to the armed forces' battalion/colonel in the district. The criteria state that the selection method for both the police forces will be determined based on the curriculum of their respective soldiers. People between the ages of 18 and 54 can apply for recruitment.
Criteria have been made to give priority to former security personnel, former forest guards, former security personnel from all three security agencies (Nepali Army, Nepal Police and Armed Police) who have applied for various posts by mid-December and passed the physical fitness and health tests, and retired security personnel from the past temporary police and security agencies of foreign countries.
Spokesperson of the Ministry of Home Affairs Anand Kafle informed that the criteria for recruitment of election police have been approved and sent to both police headquarters. It is said that now both agencies will determine the curriculum and proceed with the recruitment and selection process. The election of members of the House of Representatives for 165 seats in the direct and 110 seats in the proportional system is being held on 21 Falgun. For that, the Election Commission has already determined 10,967 polling stations and 23,112 polling stations.
One-third of the determined polling stations, i.e. 3,680, have been included in the highly sensitive list. 4,442 polling stations have been classified as sensitive and 2,845 as general challenges.
Preparations are underway to mobilize 325,000 security personnel from the Nepal Army, Nepal Police, Armed Police Force, National Investigation Department and ‘Election Police’ for the upcoming elections. Under that, the criteria for recruiting about 150,000 election police have been approved. It has already been decided to deploy 79,727 personnel from the army, 71,620 personnel from the police, 35,116 personnel from the Armed Police Force and 1,900 personnel from the Investigation Department for election security.
While 10,879 polling stations and 22,272 polling centers were designated for the representative and provincial assembly member elections held in Mangsir 2079, 75 polling stations and 875 centers have been added this time. The number of security personnel is also being increased accordingly.
There were 17,988,570 voters in the 2079 House of Representatives member elections. This time, 9.25 million more voters have been added, reaching 18.9 million 3,689 voters.
