The upcoming level elections shall see parties vying against each other in a nationwide, local poll to decide the mayoral and city wide roles for the upcoming years. A historic event in the nation, a total of 17,733,723 voters, 8,741,530 women, 8,992,010 men and 183 registered as ‘others’, are set to appear in polling booths and districts across the Nation to pick their local leaders to represent their wants and needs in their community.

The approximately 18 million voters, almost a 4 million rise to the 14 million voter turnout in the 2017 elections, shall see the voting population spread across 10,756 polling booths across the nation. The sheer behemoth of a task it is to organize the logistics of this event is being undertaken by the Election Commission of Nepal, while the security/ peace keeping aspect of the event is being managed by the nations security forces that range from around 70000 Nepal Police personnel, 60000 Armed Police Forces, 30000 Nepali Army personnel and the approximately 100000 Temporary Police Force.

The National Police is set to deploy in and around 70, 000 security personnel all across the nation to maintain peace and security in what is usually a rather politically charged event. The Kathmandu Valley shall itself see around 6,000 personnel deployed to polling stations to secure and volunteer in these zones. “ We’ve been providing apt training and directives to police all around the nation leading up to the elections and also for during and post election happenings.” says Spokesperson of Nepal Police SSP Bishnu Kumar KC. Even for the approximately 100,00 temporary police that have already been deployed and are to be actively present in and after the elections deployment is already complete and training underway SSP KC adds.