Kathmandu, Jan 25 (RSS): The government has decided to provide elderly allowance to the people completing 65 years of age.
The meeting of the Council of Ministers held at PM’s official residence, Baluwatar, on Wednesday evening, decided to reduce the age limit for the elderly to get allowance from 70 to 65.
Minister for Information and Communications Mohan Bahadur Basnet informed that the households suffering floods and earthquakes would get an additional Rs 100,000 as housing grant.
Moreover, anyone bearing the identity of women, Dalit, backward people willing to operate private firms with the capital of up to Rs 10 million would be provided fifty per cent discount in registration of the firm/company.
The government also decided to accept the technical assistance from the Swiss government for the implementation of Agriculture Development Program, and the loan for Royal Connectivity Improvement Project.
Four colonels would also be promoted, while 11 brigadier generals would be transferred. The forest covering 37,843 hectares of land in Gulmi would be declared protected forest.
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