Overview
- Roughly 80,000 army troops are part of an estimated 300,000 to 340,000 security personnel mobilised for the polls.
- An integrated three-tier plan places Nepal Police and temporary election police in the first layer, the Armed Police Force in the second, and the Nepal Army in the outer ring.
- The army is assigned aerial patrols, ballot box transport and protection during counting, and it will take over security at airports, prisons and other sensitive sites.
- Authorities classified 3,680 of 10,967 polling stations as highly sensitive, with the rest designated sensitive or normal based on risk assessments.
- Troops began deploying Wednesday under a government plan endorsed by the president, with forces set to guard about 10,800 polling stations and 23,100 booths across 165 constituencies.