Long hours, low pay and fading pride: Disquiet in lower ranks of Nepal Police

Nepal Police faces a growing morale crisis as low-ranking personnel complain of poor conditions, shrinking respect and widening internal inequality.

While addressing senior officers at the Nepal Police Headquarters in Naxal on March 30, then home minister Sudan Gurung and Inspector General Dan Bahadur Karki spoke about police uniforms using strikingly different metaphors.