KATHMANDU: Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand has clarified that the government tabled the Citizenship Bill at parliament by incorporating the matters agreed among the political parties on the bill.
Minister Khand further clarified that the government had the citizenship bill endorsed from the parliament after forging consensus among the political parties so as to address the need of youths who have been relegated as statelessness since long.
“The bill was endorsed to address the feeling of youths who have been denied of state-sponsored facilities and rights in lack of citizenship certificate”, he further explained.
Their parents are in Nepal but they have long been deprived of exercising State-endowed rights, Khand said, adding the legislation was introduced to take this issue into consideration.
He said this at a programme to declare Rupandehi a fully-vaccinated district against COVID-19 for those aged above 10-years and full immunization assurance for children up to 15 months.
The citizenship bill was endorsed from the House of Representatives and National Assembly and was sent to the President for authentication, Minister Khand said, adding the Nepali people wished to have this bill authenticated at the earliest.
He further noted that the Nepali citizens who work to defend Nepali language, culture and geography are the true protector of nationality.
Stating that COVID-19 pandemic was contained in the country due to collective efforts of all sides, he viewed that the ability of the Nepali people and State to deal with any disasters had increased.
According to him, the tourism sector in the country was hardest hit by the COVID-19 and so was the sector in the Lumbini Area.
He urged the concerned three-tier authorities to consider determining a fixed remuneration for all the health volunteers who, he added, were performing with very negligible remuneration.
At the programme organized by the District Health Office in Rupandehi district it was shared that there was anti-COVID-19 vaccination facilities for the children upto 15 months.
Children below 12 years in the dsitrict had fully received the first dose, it was informed.
He empathized quality vaccination service against COVID-19 in the remaining 11 districts in the Province.
Also speaking at the event, WHO’s representatives Shruti Nepal said that they had achieved a success in vaccination campaign in Rupandehi.
Various stakeholders and frontliner security personnel and health workers were honoured in the programme in recognition of their roles and responsibilities to make the vaccination campaign a success in the district.
