The money was released as per the government decision to give additional Rs 100,000 to those conflict-affected people who have already received Rs 200,000.[break]
Ganesh Prasad Upadhyay, the acting chief at the Relief and Rehabilitation Unit under the Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction, said Rs 2 billion has been dispatched to all 73 conflict-affected districts.
“Those who lost their kin and those whose near and dear went missing during the conflict can approach district administration offices to claim the relief,” he said. "The victim families and the families of those killed and disappeared will receive the amount very soon. The additional relief money takes the total compensation amount received by each victim to Rs 300,000.”
He informed that 14,085 families of those killed during the conflict, have already received Rs 200,000 in compensation and additional nine to 10,000 people will get Rs 100,000 each. An updated government data reveals that 17,828 people were killed, 9,000 women were widowed and 1,452 were disappeared during the ten-year long insurgency that ended in November 2006.
Similarly, 1,000 conflict-affected families are expected to receive additional amount of Rs 200,000 each while 500 widows of the disappeared men will get a sum of Rs 25,000 each. “The wives of the disappeared haven´t received any compensation so far,” Upadhyaya said.
But this "special relief package" does not include families of the security personnel who were killed or disappeared during the conflict time.
“But the victim families of Nepal Army (NA), Nepal Police and civil servants won´t get any compensation this time,” Upadhyaya added.
Relief and Rehabilitation Unit had already allocated Rs 76 lakhs for 5000 double orphans across the country.
Similarly, the unit had also disbursed Rs 70 million as compensation to 2,250 families in Kapilbastu district. Motipur, Kushwaha, Rajpur, Maharajgunj, Barahipur, Shivapur were among the 71 Village Development Committees (VDCs) of the district that benefited from this package.
Manang and Mustang were the only two districts that remained untouched by the disastrous consequences of decade long conflict.
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