Eight Terai districts classified as 'highly sensitive'

Nepal Police, which has been entrusted with the responsibility of overseeing security during the Constituent Assembly election, has put Terai districts in “highly sensitive” and “sensitive” categories in order to make the security arrangement there effective during the polls. Eight districts have been listed as “highly sensitive” and 13 districts as “sensitive” areas with special security provisions arranged for those districts.

According to the Nepal Police, the districts of Bara, Parsa, Rautahat, Mahottari, Dhanusha, Sarlahi, Siraha and Saptari have been put in “highly sensitive” category while Jhapa, Morang, Sunsari, Makwanpur, Chitwan, Nawalparasi, Rupandehi, Kapilbastu, Dang, Banke, Bardiya, Kailali and Kanchanpur districts have been listed as “sensitive” districts.

Organizing a press conference at the police headquarters on Monday, Nepal Police informed that 28 policemen would be deployed in each and every voting center of highly sensitive districts. Similarly, 22 and 19 policemen would be deployed in sensitive and normal districts respectively. The “on contract” policemen would constitute 80 percent of the policemen deployed for election security.

The police deployed in the voting centers for election security would be provided security by an outer ring of security personnel that includes mobile force, striking force, reserve force and helicopter patrolling. The “on contract” police would be given Rs 10,000 as a one month salary. The families dependent on policemen who get killed while providing election security would be given Rs 1,000,000 in compensation. Some 70,000 “on contract” policemen would be recruited by the Nepal Police for the purpose of providing security during the CA polls. nepalnews.com ag Sep 18 07