Nepal

Foreign nationals married to Nepali citizens maybe deprived of their rights

Kathmandu, September 12

Parliamentary State Affairs and Good Governance Committee is likely to finalise provision on naturalised citizenship, which will allow citizenship through mother in National Citizenship Bill. State Affairs and Good Governance Committee Chair Shashi Shrestha has asked panel members to finalise the bill.

The panel might come up with provision which will bar foreign nationals married to Nepali citizens from obtaining naturalised citizenship for at least seven years from the date of their marriage registered.

Such provision could curtail political rights of people though one can enjoy cultural, social and economic rights in the country. Most of the lawmakers from the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) and the main opposition Nepali Congress concluded that there should be a gap of certain years before granting naturalised citizenship for foreign nationals married to Nepali citizens.

Lawmakers from Tarai belt like NC Lawmaker Amresh Kumar Singh and Samajwadi Party-Nepal Lawmaker Ram Sahaya Prasad Yadav said the provision will affect foreigners married to Nepali men or women as they will be deprived of their rights.&Foreign men and women could be subjected to many complications if government did not grant naturalised citizenship right after marriage with Nepali citizens,& said Singh, adding that the government should first consider about possible difficulties people can face before deciding on naturalised citizenship.

The proposed bill stated that for a foreign woman to get naturalised citizenship after getting married with a Nepali man, she should present evidence which stated that she was no more the citizen of the country of her birth.

The bill was silent regarding a foreign man married to a Nepali woman. Secretary for Ministry of Home Affairs Prem Kumar Rai said the government will accept the decision of the panel on contentious issues of citizenship.

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Kathmandu, Sept 12

The Bill on Operation, Supervision and Coordination of Nepal Police and Provincial Police endorsed by the House of Representatives yesterday empowered the ministry of internal affairs of a province to seek police reinforcement from other provinces.

&If the support of police from other provinces is required to maintain law and order in one province during a violent situation, the Ministry of Internal Affiars of the province may request the Ministry of Home Affairs to seek help from other provincial police,& said section 8 of the bill.

Upon approval from the MoHAs to seek help from other provinces, the MoIA may mobilise police troops from other provinces to contain a violent situation.

The bill required provincial police to submit its monthly performance report to the concerned MoIA and Nepal Police. Ministry of Home Affairs and the concerned MoIA shall supervise Nepal Police and provincial police, respectively.

The bill also stipulated a provision of a five-member Police Coordination Committee led by the minister of home affairs to coordinate between Nepal Police and provincial police.

The committee included ministers of internal affairs of all provinces, secretary and a joint secretary at the Ministry of Home Affairs, and inspector general of Nepal Police as its members.

The commitee is mandated to resolve disputes regarding inter-police jurisdiction and coordinate with Nepal Police and provincial police for implementation of national security police, besides determining roles to be played by cops for maintaining law and order in the country.

&There shall also be one coordination unit each, in Nepal Police and provincial police office for information and intelligence sharing,& read section 13 of the bill.

Personnel of Nepal Police may be deployed to local bodies under provincial police if there is shortage of security personnel in provinces. The bill allowed transfer of police personnel working in one province to other provinces or in Nepal Police.

As per the bill, provincial police may recruit its personnel through open competition on recommendation of the Provincial Public Service Commission.

Nepal Police and provincial police were obliged to maintain law and order, control crime, carry out search operation, arrest suspects for investigation, collect intelligence related to public security, provide special security in vital installations, deploy forces during disasters, maintain national records on criminal activities and manage road traffic, in accordance with the law.

Provincial police was required to obtain approval of Nepal Police for procurement of arms, ammunition and other logistics. Nepal Police has been mandated to operate across the country in terms of maintaining law and order, whereas the provincial police is not authorised to intervene in security affairs of other provinces, the bill stated.

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KATHMANDU: An octogenarian was robbed of his gold chain in Kalimati of Kathmandu Metropolitan City-13, on Wednesday.

According to a complaint lodged with the police, two unidentified persons took the 82-year-old man under control and made off with the gold ornament weighing 1.5 tola, according to police.

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