The Ministry of Home Affairs has stated that security arrangements for the local level elections slated for May 14 have been completed.

Home Ministry spokesperson Bal Krishna Panthi said that the security plans have been already prepared for the central level, while such plans are in the phase of preparation at the regional and district levels.

 "All the districts have been directed to present the security plans within 15 days," Panthi said.

The local elections would elect 36,000 people's representatives at the village and municipal councils.

Panthi said the Nepal Police would be mobilised in the inner formation while the Armed Police Force (APF) in the outer security formation.

Likewise, the meeting of the Security Council last week took a decision to depute the Nepal Army in the outer circle to protect the polling centres and the ballot boxes.

The meeting of the Council of Ministers would take a decision regarding the additional role of the Nepal Army soon, Panthi informed.

The Home Ministry has the plan to mobilise 226,000 security personnel in the elections.

Accordingly, Nepal Police Headquarters has already called for applications for 75 thousand temporary police within a week.

Sixty thousand males and 10 thousand females have already applied for temporary police two days ahead of the deadline, spokesperson of the Nepal Police SSP Sarbendra Khanal said.

The Ministry has focused its attention to especially districts in Province 2 in the context of the Tarai-centric parties protesting the elections.

The security bodies have also kept the Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN Maoist under surveillance. RSS