Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane has directed the concerned authority to end the compulsion of people to come to Kathmandu to make national identity cards and passports. During a virtual meeting held with Chief District Officers of 77 districts and security chiefs on Monday, Minister Lamichhane directed the CDOs to create an environment to provide national identity cards and passports from the districts. “Let’s create an environment to provide national identity cards and passports from the districts. The Home Ministry is ready to provide support for the same,” he said.

Soon after Lamichhane was appointed as the Home Minister, he had inspected the Department of Passports.

During that time, people had complained about the delay in the distribution of passports. They had demanded that the service should be made effective by bringing a token system.