NG spends Rs. 1660 m. for PLAs

A news made public from a FM radio on 17 Oct.2007, reports,Dr. Ram Saran Mahat, a seasoned Minister of Finance and a leader of the Nepali Congress said that the Nepal Government (NG) has spent 1660 million rupees (Rs.1,660,000,000 or 1 arab and 66 crores)as a payment of monthly stipends to the Maoists' Peoples' Liberation Army (PLA) within the Fiscal years 2005 - 2007. Many of the PLAs are still living in cantonments and other outside the cantonments.