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Problem Of Army Integration In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
March 13, 2012: sending the combatants opting for the voluntary retirement home has been going on smoothly but integrating the combatants opting for integration has hit the hitch making the tasks of the army integration challenging to the Army Integration Special Committee (AISC), as the number of the combatants aspiring for integration has exceed the number agreed on the seven-point deal the four major power centers such as UCPN-Maoist, NC, CPN-UML and UDMF have reached in November 2011.
Prime Minister wants to integrate all the 9,500 combatants opting for integration but the NC and CPN-UML have been deadly against adding even a single combatant to the already agreed number of 6,500. Prime Minister has proposed to give another chance to the combatants to opt for voluntary retirement.
In addition, the UCPN-Maoist leaders want the positions of up to the brigadier general but the NC and CPN-UML leaders have been disagreeing on this matter, too. Recently, the NC leader has accepted to integrate the combatants up to the rank of colonel whereas the CPN-UML leader has agreed on letting the combatants to have the ranks of up to major.
NC and CPN-UML leaders have been for completing the integration of the combatants before discussing any contentious issues of a new constitution. Thus, the constitution writing has been dragging and the deadline for completing it has been expiring on May 27, 2012 but a lot of work has to be done following the procedures of the constitution writing. The NC and CPN-UML leaders have been deliberately delaying all the work concerning the peace process and the constitution writing, the UCPN-Maoist leaders say while the NC and CPN-UML counter charges the UCPN-Maoist leaders for the same.
