NA to send reply to SC on Army welfare fund soon

The Nepali Army (NA) has said that it will send reply to the Supreme Court (SC) regarding the transparency of the Army Welfare Fund soon.

Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Director of the Directorait of the Public Relation (DPR) of the NA, Brigadier General Anant Bahadur Thebe said that as the army is ready to follow the directives of the civilian government, it would send the reply to the SC soon.

He also claimed that the welfare fund of the NA is transparent and they are giving information about the income and expenditure of the fund to all the stakeholders through regular publication of the Army entitled “Army Order”.

Giving information about the welfare fund, Director of the Army Welfare Directorate, Brigadier General Kumar KC, informed that the fund has total reserve of 10,066,584,349 rupees at different banks and financial institutions.

He further said that the fund is getting 400 million rupees in interest from the reserve fund and getting 320 million rupees from the 12 percent contribution made by the soldiers serving UN peacekeeping missions from their allowances.

According to NA, the fund has three billion arrear at present.

Nepal started sending soldiers in UN peacekeeping missions from 1958 and so far 56,298 NA soldiers had served in the world body’s peacekeeping missions.

Currently 2,195 NA soldiers are serving in 14 different missions of the UN.