A meeting of the Council of Ministers on Monday ordered the Home Ministry to take all possible measures to check the ongoing killings and violence in Terai region and improve the overall security situation in the country.

Talking to reporters after the cabinet meeting held at Prime Minister’s official residence in Baluwatar, government spokesperson and communication minister Krishna Mahara said the meeting decided to give ‘special direction’ to the Home Ministry to improve security.

The meeting was focused mainly on the government’s policies and programmes to be presented in the legislature parliament on Wednesday, he informed.

According to minister of state for water resources Gyanendra Karki, the cabinet meeting also took a decision on promotion of some senior police officers and civil servants.

Finance minister Dr Ram Saran Mahat said the cabinet would finalise its policy document by tomorrow and present it in the House on Wednesday.

The cabinet also decided to appoint deputy governor Krishna Bahadur Manadhar as the acting governor of the Nepal Rastra Bank with the suspension of Governor Dr Bijaya Nath Bhattarai after the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) filed graft case against him on Friday.