{"id":18345,"date":"2023-04-28T14:55:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T09:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=18345"},"modified":"2023-04-28T14:55:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T09:10:51","slug":"finance-minister-says-he-has-no-idea-about-decision-to-provide-money-to-disqualified-former-maoist-combatants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=18345","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister says he has no idea about decision to provide money to disqualified former Maoist combatants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KATHMANDU &#8211;<\/strong> Finance Minister Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat has said he has no idea about the decision to allocate amount from the State coffers to the disqualified ex-Maoist combatants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Finance Ministry so far takes no official decision to this regard, according to him. National Youth Association, Nepal today called on Finance Minister and submitted a seven-point memorandum citing the government decided to provide Rs 200 thousands each to ex-Maoist combatant who were assessed as disqualified during the peace process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Receiving the memo, the Finance Minister said although the budget speech for the current fiscal year incorporated the issue of the management of disqualified people&#8217;s liberation army soldiers, the Ministry has not decided to provide them the amount.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The issues of disqualified ex-Maoist combatant reached the court. The budget has also mentioned it. No decision has been taken over the matter since I assumed the office. I have no idea about the work procedure said to be endorsed by the Council of Ministers to proceed ahead on this matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He took time to urge all not to doubt over the misappropriation of the State coffers by the government. &#8220;I urge all to not doubt that the government will misappropriate the state coffers in the name of disqualified combatants,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Minister from the Nepali Congress shared with the delegation that the NC was also concerned on this matter. In the memo, the Association said, &#8220;Our serious attention has been drawn to the Working Procedure prepared by the Home Ministry and presented before the Council of Ministers on April 19 in a bid to provide Rs 200 thousand each to the disqualified Maoist combatants.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU &#8211; Finance Minister Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat has said he has no idea about the decision to allocate amount from the State coffers to the disqualified ex-Maoist combatants. The Finance Ministry so far takes no official decision to this regard, according to him. National Youth Association, Nepal today called on Finance Minister and submitted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Finance Minister says he has no idea about decision to provide money to disqualified former Maoist combatants - KathmanduPati<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=18345\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Finance Minister says he has no idea about decision to provide money to disqualified former Maoist combatants - KathmanduPati\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KATHMANDU &#8211; Finance Minister Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat has said he has no idea about the decision to allocate amount from the State coffers to the disqualified ex-Maoist combatants. 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