By A Staff Reporter

Kathmandu, Jan. 28: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli Monday said that the government’s national dream and aspiration for turning Nepal into a digital and modern country would be fulfilled only when the whole government administration and employees prepared themselves to work with a changed mindset.
“Nepal, which remains as a land-linked economic nation between the two giant economies, China and India, has a wish to be upgraded as a middle income nation by 2030,” Prime Minister Oli said while inaugurating the newly developed ‘Nepali Port’ established at the Immigration Office of the Tribhuvan International Airport.
Prime Minister Oli said that the government had its focus on massive resource mobilisation for gaining optimum economic activities in the country by developing road, water and railway connectivity in the days ahead.
The overall infrastructure development initiative taken to overhaul the old look and system of the immigration at the TIA has added up one more brick in the government’s dream to achieve digital and modern Nepal, he said.
Prime Minister Oli also suggested the other offices like Immigration under the Home Ministry to prepare and launch similar type of technological progress in their respective organisations to develop Nepal as a digital nation.
The government is committed to controlling human trafficking, drug trafficking, money laundering, and activities posing challenges to maintain peace and security in the country, the Prime Minister said.
The government has been giving a due importance to economic, social and technological aspects taking specific objectives, strategies and goals to achieve its national goal of “Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali,” he said.
Prime Minister Oli said that since the government under his leadership came into the power, it had been able to raise Nepal’s prestige high at the international forums.
Director General at the Department of Immigration Eshor Raj Poudel said that the ‘Nepali Port’ software was designed and brought into operation from Monday at the TIA and 12 other border points of Nepal with the help of Nepali engineers and technicians at a cost of Rs. 8 million in one year period of preparation.
Under the Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa Badal’s 82-point Home Administration Improvement Work Plan, the Immigration has also executed immigration improvement action plan which has taken final shape with a budget of Rs. 220 million, said DG Poudel.
Highlighting the features of Nepali Port and the latest technology launched at the Immigration, DG Poudel said that it was developed making compatible with bio-metric system, provision of Irish camera and finger prints that are based on real time data base system.
The new Nepali Port has displaced the old and traditional electromagnetic interference (EMI) software.
The newly launched Port is completely a real time data-based information sharing and collection of the records of every individual and those possible criminal groups whose track records were not good across the country. Also, this port will keep record of those Nepali citizens going for foreign employment and students going abroad taking no objection letters.
The Nepali Port will have that system which can read and show the picture of all those criminal members and individuals as identified by Nepal Police and of the international police based on the information provided by the Interpol Office, Poudel said while briefing the Prime Minister.