India`s neighboring country Nepal has said that it will seek identity cards from visitors from India. Nepal`s Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa said that he told a parliamentary panel that they will use the data to better deal with the COVID-19 situation. Thapa told the State Management and Good Governance Committee of Parliament, “Archiving is underway. The government will focus on developing it in a system that will make it permanent.” The Minister said Kathmandu will implement the identity cards and registration system and will try to formalise a record-keeping process to better manage the movement of people and the pandemic. Nepalese Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli has recently blamed India for the spread of the COVID-19 in the country. India and Nepal have an open border which is demarcated but for Kalapani in Uttarakhand`s Pithoragarh district and Susta in the Uttar Pradesh-Biharregion. Nepal has increased the deployment of armed personnel on the border with India since the Kalapani dispute intensified in May. The process will be a milestone in India-Nepal relations. At present both sides coordinate trade with the help of the major trading points like Birgunj. However, ID-cards for Indian citizens are being viewed as a step towards Nepal`s tightening the cross-border movement from the Indian side which usually benefits local trading communities of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.