The Finance Ministry has committed to provide Rs 10 million to set up each of the offices, Lila Mani Paudel, home secretary, told mediapersons.
Firstly, we will work on infrastructure and system in those districts and gradually choose the best persons for the offices to set an example for others to implement, added Paudel. However he said the ministry is yet to finalise the names of chosen districts.
“We will be in a position to give carbon copy of lost or stolen citizenship certificates issued from anywhere in the country once we complete computerisation of these vital data,” said Under Secretary Pralhad Pokharel, Head of E-governance Section at the Home Ministry.
For over the past years, the Home Ministry has been maintaining records and citizen certificates in a labour intensive mode of data management which runs the risk of losing vital data.
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According to the Act, every office should appoint IOs to provide and manage information for public dissemination.
A study conducted by National Vigilance Centre made public today at a convention on Right to Information organised by Freedom Forum here in the capital revealed that there are only 351 IOs for 9,000 public offices.
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Officials at the Home Ministry said the move will not only help maintain up-to-date data of citizenship certificates but also facilitate introducing National Identity Card in the due course.
“We will be in a position to give carbon copy of lost or stolen citizenship certificates issued from anywhere in the country once we complete computerization of these vital data,” said Under Secretary Pralhad Pokharel, who heads E-governance Section at the ministry.
“Broadband needs to be considered as basic national infrastructure as it will fundamentally reshape the world in the twenty-first century and change the way services are delivered — from the e-health to e-education to e-commerce,” said Sameer Sharma, senior adviser of International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific at a programme organised jointly by ITU and Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) here in the Valley.
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