Ministers who can't use laptops in 6 months will be sacked: Nepal PM

Oli, who took charge as Nepal's prime minister in February for the second time, said the Prime Minister's Office will be made paperless within six months.

Speaking during the 12th general convention of Nepal National Teachers Organisation here, he said that anyone at the Council of Ministers who does not know how to operate a laptop will be sacked, the Kathmandu Post reported.

"I have already said in the Council of Ministers meeting that we will make the office paperless within six months and the meeting's programmes and agenda will be discussed using laptops, said Oli.

He said that the ministers can take help from their assistants in operating the laptops for six months.

"We will bid farewell to any ministers failing to operate laptops on their own after six months," he said, adding that the sacked ministers will be given the laptops so that they can learn to operate until their next tenure.

Oli further said the government aims to take strides in making Nepal an information technology friendly country within the time period.

Meanwhile, Nepal's Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli on Wednesday underlined the need to redefine and reinterpret the Marxist philosophy, saying a new thinking was required to effectively use Marxism in the contemporary world.

Oli, who is also the chairperson of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), while inaugurating an international seminar on "Marxism and Socialism" organised by the party here to mark the bi-centennial of Karl Marx, also said that it is necessary to prove that the progress of humanity and end to social exploitations were possible only by following the ideology.

The Communist Party of Nepal-UML, led by Oli and CPN-Maoist Centre formally merged on May 17 to form the Nepal Communist Party (NCP).

"It is necessary to redefine Marxism in order to prove that freedom, liberation and end to exploitation is possible only under Marxism.

"Our principles of a people-oriented state and the governance system of competitive democracy are coherent," the Prime Minister said, adding "a new thinking is required to successfully and effectively use Marxism in the contemporary world."