India to help Nepal in rehabilitating Maoist combatants
NEPAL: The Indian government is likely to help Nepal in
rehabilitating the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M) combatants
living in U.N.-supervised cantonments, reported website eKantipur
Monday.
The offer will include vocational training courses to train
combatants for employment, the website quoted an Indian newspaper as
saying. The combatants numbering around 20,000 have been lodged
currently in 28 cantonments and are being monitored by the United
Nations Mission in Nepal.
"Training 30,000 men would be a small but significant goodwill
gesture toward the people of Nepal," the newspaper quoted a senior
policy-maker in New Delhi as saying.
The website also quoted sources at the Indian External Affairs
Ministry as saying that details on how and where to train these people
will be worked out in consultation with the Nepalese government.
Kathmandu, Tuesday, Xinhua |