Background

Nepal is a small least developed country located in between two Asian giants, China and India. Execution of planned economic effort has already passed six decades. During this period, country has done good progress in some social sectors (education, health) and basic development infrastructures such as transportation, telecommunication, electricity. Yet, the country is not fastly going up to the rostrum of developed countries, the reason being of political instability, geographical location and prevalence of poverty and illiteracy. In addition to this, some small but productive sectors were also not taken off for the economic development. Security Printing is one of those productive enterprise left behind. 

 In this background, Government of Nepal, as per the provision of Development Committee Act 1956, has promulgated Security Printing Development Committee (Formation) order 2016. Further more, as per the provision of this legal order, Security Printing Centre has been recently established at Singha Durbar as the administrative office of the committee.

Scope of Work

• Policies, budget and programmes related to security printing
• Physical infrastructure construction essential for security printing.
• Establishment and operation of security printing press for Passports, Cheques, Smartcards, Postage stamps, Banknotes, Revenue stickers and other valuable items.
• Personalization  of Passport and Smartcards
• Service charge determination
• Appropriate study and research essential for security printing.
• Training and orientation programmes related to security printing
• Management of financial resources

Composition of Security Printing Development Committee