Regrouping begins

The Army Integration Special Committee has deployed its Secretariat members to the cantonments for regrouping the former Maoist combatants. Convenor of the Special Committee Secretariat Balananda Sharma said teams comprising members of the Secretariat have been mobilised to the seven PLA camps for regrouping of the Maoist combatants.

This move comes after the major political parties agreed in principle to complete the works related to the army integration process by 12 April through the main Special Committee.

The Special Committee meeting decided to give the choice to opt for integration or voluntary retirement in order to reduce the numbers of the combatants to be integrated from 9,706 to 6,500.

A meeting of the Special Committee on 4 April had decided that the combatants opting for integration would be handed over to the Nepali Army, their arms would be brought under the control of the government and those combatants opting for voluntary retirement would be sent home.

The teams will reach the Chulachuli camp in Ilam, the Dudhauli camp in Sindhuli, the Shaktikhor camp in Chitwan, the Jhyaltungdanda camp in Nawalparasi,the Dahaban camp in Rolpa, the Dasrathpur camp in Surkhet and the Talband camp in Kailali for that purpose.