The 16-member taskforce, headed by former Constituent Assembly (CA) member Binod Pahadi, will scout for at least two separate places for burial ground in each of 75 districts in the next four months. [break]"We will recommend one temporary burial ground and one long-term burial ground for each district," said C B Gahatraj, joint coordinator of the committee.
The taskforce, which has joint secretaries from various line ministries as ex officio members, will submit its final report to the government by the end of this fiscal year (July 15). "Based on the report, the government will arrange burial grounds for us," said Gahatraj, who is also General Secretary of Federation of National Christian Nepal (FNCN).
The taskforce was formed by the government just last month as per an understanding reached with the FNCN, which had launched a series of protest programs demanding burial grounds for them in the past.
The FNCN had been on the warpath after Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) prevented the Christian people from burying their dead in the Shleshmantak jungle early in 2011.
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