Nepal, July 6 -- The government plans to begin printing excise duty stamps, citizenship certificates, national identity cards and other security documents at the Security Printing Centre from the next fiscal year, Minister for Communications and Information Technology Dr Bikram Timilsina said on Monday.

Responding to lawmakers' queries in the National Assembly, Timilsina said the centre has so far printed 2.4 million driving licences and 3.5 million postage stamps in the current fiscal year. The government has allocated Rs 220 million for the centre in the upcoming fiscal year to expand domestic printing of security documents and reduce dependence on foreign printing services.

He said the government aims to develop the Security Printin...