Govt to install national security printing plant at IT Park

KATHMANDU: The government is mulling to install a national security printing plant at the Information Technology Park.

Gokul Prasad Baskota, Minister for Communications and Information Technology, informed that the IT Park, being a national pride project, will have a security press.

Baskota informed that currency notes, passport, postage stamps, and digital cards would also be printed in the IT Park.

In the first phase, security print will be based on paper and later equipped with technology and plastic card based printing, he said at a press conference in Banepa.

Baskota informed that currency notes, passport, postage stamps, and digital cards would also be printed in the IT Park.

On the occasion, he claimed that development activities have accelerated across the country. “Be sure, development pace won’t be slowed now at any cost,” he assured the people asserting that roads, schools, universities, hospital, and technology would contribute to the prosperity of the country.

For the holistic development of Banepa municipality, Rs 60 million has been allocated and additional Rs 40 million would be provided later, according to him.