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Swiss Government Provides Nepal With Rs 446 million For NPTF
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 22, 2011: Joint Secretary to the Ministry of Finance, the Government of Nepal Lal Shanker Ghimire, and Swiss Ambassador to Nepal Thomas Gass yesterday signed off the agreement on the Swiss government providing the government of Nepal with a grant assistance of Rs. 446 million (five million Swiss Francs) for the Nepal Peace Trust Fund (NPTF).
Speaking at the agreement-signing ceremony, Ambassador Gass has said that the grant assistance the Swiss government has provided will be for funding the activities in the five thematic areas such as cantonment management and integration/rehabilitation of the Maoist combatants, assistance to conflict affected persons/communities, reconstruction of public infrastructure, promotion of security and transitional justice, and support to the Constituent Assembly, elections and peace initiatives at local and national levels, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes.
The government has set up NPFT in February 2007 with the support of a group of donors such as Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, UK and later the European Commission for funding the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
