Nepal
Tarakhola Rural Municipality in Baglung is providing a monthly allowance to the families of martyrs, disappeared, injured, and mutilated in course of the armed conflict.
Dhan Bahadur BK, the chairperson of the rural municipality, informed that the families of martyrs and disappeared persons would receive monthly allowance from next month.
Each family of the martyr and the disappeared person would be provided with Rs 1,500 as a monthly allowance, BK said.
The municipal executive meeting has already endorsed a policy to distribute allowance to the targeted families, he added.
In case of the injured and disabled persons, their families would receive monthly allowance ranging Rs 500 to Rs 1,000 after verification of their identity cards by the district administration and ward office.
As many as 11 persons had sustained critical injuries during the Maoist insurgency in Tarakhola Rural Municipality and 21 persons had obtained martyrdom whereas two persons were disappeared from the state side. Four persons were killed by the then rebel force CPN (Maoist) side during the armed conflict.
The authorities have included this proposal in the policy and budget through its village assembly.
The rural municipality has formulated a policy in a way to provide employment opportunity to the families who had to face loss of their physical structures during the armed conflict.
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