{"id":74,"date":"2026-09-16T10:16:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/?p=74"},"modified":"2026-09-16T10:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:16:44","slug":"nationwide-directive-issued-to-ensure-discrimination-free-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide Directive Issued to Ensure Discrimination-Free Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Kathmandu :<\/strong>\u00a0An initiative led by the Ministry of Women, Children, Gender and Sexual Minorities and Social Security to ensure social justice, equal access and discrimination-free service delivery has entered the nationwide implementation phase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The ministry had requested the Ministry of Home Affairs to facilitate the effective handling of complaints and grievances related to gender-based violence, caste discrimination, untouchability and social exclusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Under the leadership of Minister Sita Badi, the ministry has been advancing the initiative in coordination with concerned government agencies to create an environment where citizens receive equal, respectful and discrimination-free services from state institutions on issues of social justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Following the ministry\u2019s request, the Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a circular to concerned security and administrative agencies, directing them to facilitate the registration and resolution of complaints and ensure that service delivery is non-discriminatory, service-user friendly and effective. Letters have been sent to agencies including Nepal Police, Armed Police Force Nepal, District Administration Offices, Area Administration Offices and Border Administration Offices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Similarly, to extend the initiative to the local level, the Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives, Federal Affairs and General Administration has written to all rural municipalities and municipalities across the country. The ministry has requested all local governments to conduct campaign-oriented programs against caste discrimination and untouchability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The letter sent to local governments calls for campaign-based programs to address issues including gender discrimination and violence, caste discrimination and untouchability, and social exclusion in a manner that ensures effective resolution of grievances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Thus, the initiative launched by the Ministry of Women, Children, Gender and Sexual Minorities and Social Security has now reached security and administrative agencies through the Ministry of Home Affairs and local governments through the Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives, Federal Affairs and General Administration.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is expected to make coordinated government efforts against gender-based violence, caste discrimination, untouchability and social exclusion more effective by extending social justice measures beyond the central level to security mechanisms, administrative offices and local governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu :\u00a0An initiative led by the Ministry of Women, Children, Gender and Sexual Minorities and Social Security to ensure social justice, equal access and discrimination-free service delivery has entered the nationwide implementation phase. The ministry had requested the Ministry of Home Affairs to facilitate the effective handling of complaints and grievances related to gender-based violence, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/sita.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}