some points i would like to correct, IMI said, i see conspiracy from the maoists side when they say we don't need army.It is not some royals army it is nepalese people army. --> may be you forgot it was royal nepalese army a month ago. it did change the NAME to nepalese army ... Ne23pe said, My point exactly Imi. Chuparustam and sidster tell the army trained 90k people take some of them out and leave them without a job then what do you think these people are going to do for survival. They are going to be another group of thugs with military training. --> I want you to think carefully regarding this point. Just imagine that from tomorrow, 90k army men are told that they are not army anymore but they still will be receiving the salary they have been. So, they dont have to train anymore, just go around and enjoy their life. Do you think the government can not do that???? The money government has been alloting for the army is not there because army is earning some moeny on its own!! mind it. The government`s income wont change one rupee!!!!! Do you understand this?? Think once again. (Army lai dindai ayeko salary batta ko rup ma diye pani k pharak parcha? Tyo paisa government ko ho. Army le government lai paisa kamayera dindaina. Imagine nepal ama ko das jana chora haru chan. army nepal ama ko pyaro chora ho. aru chora haru le kamayera lyako paisa army bhanne pyaro chora lai nepal ama le pocket money ko rup ma dincha. tyasko bapat army bhanne pyaro chora khelera din bitauncha!) One more thing. If you think army is a good employement source then why not make the whole unemployed population of Nepal into army?? Would that solve the unemployment problem???? Not at all!!! Remind you one thing again "Army is not productive". So, my idea is that, reduce the combat army to a number which is suitable for a small nation like Nepal. What are the benifits? 1. The money alloted for the huge army, including the salary and ammunitions, can be moved for developmental projects. 2. The huge number of young blood serving in army can be utilised in more productive way. One of the options might be foreign employement as sidster suggested. Other options might be doing social works... I do know that No.2 is not an easy task. Saying is easy but, as we dont want so see a poor and helpless Nepal for time and again, so we should have the courage to take big steps, n big decisions! I will give you one example. In shankhamul bagmati, there was a bridge which was broken in course of time and a new bridge was being made with the aid of Japan after about 15yrs!!! Well, do you guys think we need some foreign help to make a simple bridge? You might say yes and give reasons like we dont have money, materials, technology. But I dont think that is the case. If we tried to make the bridge with whathever materials and technology we have, its just fine. May be it will prove to be delicate and break away in no time. But in that case we can follow up, study why it broke? make some changes and make a new better one. Repeat it again and again. What will be the result? We will be independant. We will have materials and technology of our own. Then what we can make bridges all over nepal, or even export the technolgoy to other countries.. I think it is the basic rule of evolution. What do you guys think about this?? Why dont we involve in making a better Nepal? Start from where we are !!