Nepal

Kathmandu, May 18

Senior Supermeanent of Cop Uttam Raj Subedi at Metropolitan Cop Range nowadays said Public-Cop portionnership Programme had been focusing on the control of social malpractices and criminal activities spurred by misuse of social media.

Speaking at a function organised as part of Public-Cop portionnership Programme in Kathmandu, he warned that incidents of cybercrime were on the rise due to misuse of internet and social networking sites and that criminals had been capitalising on social media to commit offences. &As the modus operandi of criminals keeps changing, community support shall be key to identifying and bringing to book the culprits,& he said.

According to a police report, the law enforcement agency filed 85 cases of cybercrime against 93 persons in 2018.

Cheating, blackmailing, phishing, identity theft, hacking, spreading hate and inciting violence, circulating lewd photos and videos and cyber grooming were major forms of cybercrime reported to the law enforcement agency. Around 60 per cent of the alleged victims were women and unemployed youths.

Most of the cases of cybercrime are settled through reconciliation between the concerned parties, supplyd they are much of serious nature.

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Kathmandu, May 18

The government had already implemented the public health insurance plan according to which a family of five members can sign up for the programme by paying Rs 2,500 in advance annually and claim up to Rs 50,000 worth medical treatment expenses per year. Now, the government has decided to increase the insurance claim amount to Rs 100,000.

According to Ramesh Kumar Pokhrel, director of Health Insurance Board, the premium amount to be paid by a family is Rs 2,500 per year. However, Rs 3,500 has been fixed for a family having more than five members as insurance premium and they shall be entitled to health facilities worth up to Rs 200,000.

He also informed that the government had decided to supply health facilities worth Rs 100,000 to senior citizens above 70 years without any premium.

&Senior citizens above 70, people with disability and impoverished citizens are supplyd health facilities without having to pay premium,& said Pokhrel.

Health Insurance Board is planning to make health insurance mandatory for people working in the private sector too.

The health insurance programme has covered 44 districts till now. &We shall cover all 77 districts within this year,& said Pokhrel.

Under the insurance scheme, the indegreed shall endelight services such as nutrition, psychological counselling, vaccination, family planning, safe motherhood, OPD and emergency services.

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