A 17-member team along with Balananda Sharma, coordinator of Special Committee (SC), has been deputed for the process. [break]
The process has resumed as per the decision taken the SC. The SC had decided to begin integration process by September 6.
As per SC decision, the selection committees of the Nepal Army will determine the age of the combatants who have two dates of birth -- one in the UNMIN-issued identity card and another in the citizenship -- on the basis of their citizenship. And the service period of such combatants will be counted from the date they turned 18 years of age.
The cross-party mechanism also decided to give three years of consession to those combatants who are overage.
Started on July 6, the integration process was stalled three days later after the selection committees of the national army started disqualifying those former combatants who were found underage at the time of joining the Maoist army though they were 18 years of age at the time of verification by the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN).
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