Kathmandu, May 11
People who have been temporarily residing in the Kathmandu Valley for various reasons are
returning home to vote in the May 13 local level election.
The number of people leaving the Valley has increased recently, according to the Kathmandu Valley Traffic Police Office, with most of them going home to exercise one of the most important democratic rights the Right to Vote.
The inflow of people into the Valley is lesser than the exodus. Around 10,000 to 15,000 people are leaving the Valley on average on a daily basis lately. The statistics as of last Monday showed that 55,746 passengers traveled outside of the Valley in 7,911 vehicles while 42,544 entered the Valley during the same period.
The statistic does not include the passengers traveling in private vehicles and reserved ones, police said.
A total of 17,733,723 voters are enrolled in the voters’ list updated by the Election Commission of Nepal. There are a total of 10,756 polling stations and 21,955 polling booths for the upcoming election.
Security arrangements have been made accordingly, classifying 2,946 polling stations as highly sensitive, 4,423 as sensitive ones, and 3,387 as less sensitive, according to the EC.
The election is going to be held in a single phase and the silent hour began starting Tuesday at midnight.
