Central Security Committee's instruction to further strengthen security arrangements

Kathmandu, Jan 21: The government has directed the District Security Committees to further strengthen security arrangements in view of the upcoming March 5 election to the House of Representatives members.     

The meeting of the Central Security Committee presided over by Minister for Home Affairs Om Prakash Aryal here today called for making security arrangement more reliable to systematize the electoral campaigns of political parties and candidates running the upcoming election.     

The meeting decided to activate all mechanisms formed to coordinate election related programme, according to the Secretariat of the Home Minister.     

Decision was also made to make the monitoring of social media more effective so as to control the misuse of social media during the election campaign.     

It was also decided that those doing illegal activities would be brought to book.     

The meeting also reviewed the preparations made by all four security agencies regarding the election security plan.     

The Integrated Election Security Plan-2082 BS approved by the Committee targeting the election is currently in force.(RSS)