Security Printing Bill to be forwarded soon

KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 5: Minister for Communications and Information Technology Rekha Sharma has said that the Security Printing Bill should be forwarded by considering the lawmakers’ amendment motions, reports received from the National Assembly and the spirit of the discussions taking place in the parliamentary committee meetings. At a discussion programme on the Security Printing Bill in today’s meeting of the Education, Health and Information Technology Committee of the House of Representatives (HoR), Minister Sharma stated that a clear definition of printing of bank notes should be stated in the bill.

“The issues to be included in the security printing categories should be made clear as other materials too could come for printing except the ones stated by the government as the security printing,” Minister Sharma argued. Minister Sharma further stated that printing of the driving license which is under the rights of the province government should be removed from the bill.

Likewise, she argued that ATMs and Recharge Cards also could not fall under the scope of security printing since the telecommunications company can issue these services. The government had registered the bill at the federal parliament some three years ago to pave the way for the establishment of the security printing press.