Upon her return from her Europe tour, she talked to journalists and said the situation had become shameful due to weaknesses on the part of Nepal and that the passport deal should be given to India without thinking much about the mater. [break]
She said she wonders why the proposal she took to the cabinet two months ago has not been approved yet.
She said she chose the Indian company for the job as it had presented the proposal first. She said there is no risk of information leakage as the tasks of printing and photo numbering will be carried out in Nepal. She said India would even construct a building here for the printer.
She said the country has not been developed due to unnecessary doubts over India. She argues if there is a security threat from giving MRP printing job to India, there will be equal threat from giving the job to any other company.
As per ICAO deadline, Nepal is to also needed to implement MRPs from April 1.
In another query from journalists, she said she was informed that her father NC President GP Koirala’s health is improving and a decision whether to take him abroad will be taken only after consultations with the doctors.
She said she had taken CA member Ram Krishna Yadav, who is also the chairman of Public Accounts Committee of the parliament, to Europe tour as he was also a good friend and her party’s party member.
Koirala had gone to Europe to take part in a March 1-3 gathering of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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