Kathmandu, August 25
The Supreme Court has issued an interim order to temporarily halt the government’s decision to make the national identity card mandatory for accessing social security allowances and other public services.
On Friday, a bench of Justices Dr Manoj Kumar Sharma and Til Prasad Shrestha ordered the government not to enforce the decision requiring the national identity card for social security allowances at this time.
Advocates, including Ram Bahadur Rawal, filed a petition in the Supreme Court arguing that the government has been slow in issuing national identity cards and that making them mandatory would deprive many senior citizens of their social security allowances.
The government had decided to make the national identity card mandatory for receiving social security allowances, obtaining mobile SIM cards, and accessing all public services.
