Kathmandu, Jan. 16 -- When Province 2 went ahead with endorsing its Provincial Police Bill back in October last year, it created quite a furore at the Centre-so much so that former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, co-chairman of the governing Nepal Communist Party, went on to warn that any move to "overtake the Centre" would jeopardise republicanism.

The objection to Province 2 move of bringing its own Provincial Police Bill emanated from the fact that the federal parliament was yet to introduce the umbrella law on management of police in the federal set-up.

The federal government finally registered the Police Bill in Parliament on Monday.

The bill says provincial governments can mobilise police personnel only up to the inspector lev...