KATHMANDU, April 30:  Prakash Rayamajhi, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal's IT expert, has objected to the news report that the PM Dahal's IT expert's company has been asked to facilitate the verification of the collected details after the National Identity Card Management Procedure was abolished.

He refuted the news on Friday and claimed that it was published without factual evidence.

After the government canceled the inter-system affiliation procedure prepared and implemented earlier by the Department of National Id and Civil Registration (DoNIDCR), Nagarik Daily published news about Schema Technology Pvt Ltd getting this opportunity.

Stating that the news was published with the aim of defaming the government and stopping the efforts to maintain good governance in the field of information and communication technology as an IT expert, Prime Minister's IT expert Rayamajhi stated that the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, the Prime Minister's Secretariat, and the IT expert had no role in the decision to cancel the procedure.

"I would like to refute the news as the newspaper has planned and associated me and my name without even taking any response from me and published the news with the intention of assassinating my character and defaming the Prime Minister's Office," said Rayamajhi.

He also said that the facts have been tampered with. "As an IT expert of the Honorable Prime Minister, I have played a necessary role in making the process of getting an identity card easy, simple and effective, which is also my responsibility.”

“Rather than making a deal with my company as stated in the news, continuous efforts have been made to end the fate of ordinary people having to stand in line for hours to fill in the same information in more than a dozen agencies of the Nepal government. It is important to be clear about this,” he added.

Similarly, Prime Minister Dahal's IT expert Rayamajhi, managing director of Schema Technology Pvt Ltd, has also stated that no procedure has been set up to give it to his company.

Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Narayankaji Shrestha has been saying that he will not make any decision on this matter immediately, and that no private sector company will be allowed to facilitate certification related to inter-system affiliation. After he took the proposal to the Council of Ministers to abolish the procedure on April 18, it was rejected on the same day. At present, the Prime Minister's Office is investigating the matter.