NEPAL MRPs from Valley DAOs
KATHMANDU

The inter-ministries task force, formed for easy issuance of Machine Readable Passports, on Thursday decided to issue MRPs from the District Administrative Offices of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur from January 18. However, personalisation service for all MRP seekers would continue from Central Passport Office based in MoFA. ( The inter-ministries task force, formed for easy issuance of Machine Readable Passports (MRPs), today decided to issue MRPs from the District Administrative Offices of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur from January 18.
The task force meeting, held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), however,

decided that personalisation service for all MRPs seekers would continue from Central Passport Office (CPO) based at MoFA.
“We decided to this effect to manage the crowd of MRP aspirants and enable easy issuance for them,” Foreign Secretary Dr Madan Kumar Bhattarai said. More than 1,500 people on an average have been queuing up at MoFA for MRPs every day.

MoFA is going to issue the

first MRPs from December 26. According to Bhattarai, district administrative offices of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur will collect MRPs forms from respective district dwellers and later issue them after CPO personalises these MRPs. Citizens of the remaining 72 districts and Nepalis living abroad have to approach MoFA for the MRPs.
A senior official at MoFA termed the decision a step

towards decentralizing the issuance of MRPs.
On Monday, the government had formed a ninemember task force to ensure easy and secure issuance of MRPs, comprising joint-secretary level representatives from various ministries, including MoFA, Home, Finance, Information and Communication, and Transportation under the coordination of Chief of CPO, Bharat Raj Paudel.

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