Kathmandu. The Election Commission has approved traffic management standards, 2079 for the voting day of the House of Representatives and State Assembly elections to be held on 4th March 2079. According to that standard, the candidate or candidate’s elected representative must submit an application to the Chief Electoral Officer or Election Officer in the prescribed format for using the vehicle on the day of polling. In order to use the vehicle on the polling day, other agencies or organizations other than the candidates must submit an application to the agency or authority that issued the permit, mentioning the vehicle number, type of vehicle, and the name of the vehicle used on the official letter pad of the related agency or organization.
On the basis of passport, visa and air ticket in case of passengers traveling by international and domestic air flights on the day of polling as per approved norms the chief district officer of the concerned district should facilitate the movement from the residence to the airport and from the airport to the passenger’s residence. If the disabled person is unable to move on his own, a vehicle can be used on the basis of a fully disabled or extremely disabled disability ID card for traveling from the residence to the polling station and from the polling station to the residence. In the case of a person who cannot walk on his own due to disability, the election officer can issue a permit in the prescribed format on the recommendation of the concerned ward office.
Ambulances carrying patients, drinking water tankers, milk vehicles, fire brigades, information and broadcasting department or provincial communications registrar’s office or a press pass issued by the provincial government’s communications authority or other regulatory bodies of a similar nature or registered in accordance with prevailing laws and listed in the Press Council of Nepal on the day of polling Vehicles used by media persons carrying identity cards issued by the respective media houses in operation, vehicles used for telecommunication and cable services, Hearse vehicles, vehicles used for the movement of doctors, health workers, and employees with identity cards working in hospitals, vehicles used by observers, observers, monitors carrying identity cards issued by the Election Commission, vehicles used for transporting garbage, vegetables, fruits and vehicles used for electricity services. instruments, diplomatic missions, Vehicles with blue number plates used by officials and employees of diplomatic missions, UN agencies and bilateral and multilateral development partner organizations, vehicles with green number plates carrying only foreign tourists, vehicles of security agencies used by security personnel, It has been arranged that permission should not be obtained for the vehicles used by the staff and volunteers to go to the polling station and return from the polling station. But such vehicles cannot be used for transporting voters.
If found using a vehicle against the norms, the security agencies and security personnel will seize the such vehicle and take necessary legal action and return it only after the completion of voting, it has been stated through the requested statement.
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