The budget for the Election Commission, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Home Affairs, and the security agencies under it has been released for the House of Representatives elections scheduled for 21 Falgun.
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The Ministry of Finance has released Rs 19.21 billion as of Tuesday for the management and security of the upcoming House of Representatives elections.
The budget of the Election Commission, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Home Affairs and the security agencies under it has been released for the election of members of the House of Representatives scheduled for 21 Falgun. Of the mentioned budget, 10.39 billion rupees have been released to the Ministry of Home Affairs, 1.99 billion rupees to the Ministry of Defense and 6.72 billion rupees to the Election Commission, informed Tanka Prasad Pandy, spokesperson of the Ministry of Finance. Earlier, the Election Commission had estimated that about 27 billion rupees would be spent for the upcoming election. Of this, the Ministry of Finance has so far released 19.25 billion rupees.
Earlier, the Ministry of Home Affairs and Defense had sent a proposal to the Ministry of Finance to manage resources of about 20.5 billion rupees for election security. The estimated expenditure required for both ministries, the Nepal Army, Nepal Police, Armed Police Force (APF), National Investigation Department and Election Police was sent to the Ministry of Finance.
Earlier, a budget of 18.548 billion rupees was released for the House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly elections in the fiscal year 2079/80. Of which, Rs 8.35 billion 2 billion was released to the Election Commission, Rs 8.72 billion 73 million to the Ministry of Home Affairs and Rs 977 million 73 million to the Ministry of Defence. However, the Ministry of Finance has stated that only Rs 16.49 billion 73 million was spent on the election. This is 91.37 percent of the total released amount. Of the released amount, the Election Commission spent Rs 8.81 billion 32 million (81.59 percent), the Ministry of Home Affairs spent Rs 8.70 billion 68 million (99.77 percent) and the Ministry of Defence spent Rs 977 million (100 percent).
Local elections were held in the fiscal year 2078/79. In which the government released a budget of Rs 13.31 billion 54 million. At that time, 90.80 percent of the released amount was spent. The Election Commission was allocated Rs 6.14 billion 9.99 billion for the fiscal year 2078/79, the Ministry of Home Affairs Rs 6.53 billion 47 billion for the Ministry of Defence Rs 630 million 800 million. Of the total expenditure at that time, the Election Commission spent Rs 4.96 billion 31 million (80.70 percent), the Ministry of Home Affairs Rs 6.49 billion 7.8 million (99.43 percent) and the Ministry of Defence Rs 620 million 89 million (99.70 percent), according to the Finance Ministry.
The Central Security Committee meeting has already decided to recruit 147,000 election police (formerly temporary police) for election security. It has been proposed to allocate Rs 9.15 billion for the election police, including remuneration, uniform and ration allowance, transportation expenses, lunch allowance, etc., with a 40-day working period.
Similarly, it has been proposed to allocate Rs 4.2 billion for the Nepal Police, Rs 3.44 billion for the Nepal Army, Rs 3.33 billion for the Armed Police Force, Rs 31.46 billion for all 77 District Administration Offices, Rs 31.1 billion for the Ministry of Home Affairs, and Rs 69 million for the National Investigation Department. The government is preparing 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.
