I for one support increasing the size of Nepal army.

First of all start thinking beyond the facevalue of everything you analyze. Nepal army is certainly not to protect the country from an Indian or Chinese invasion. We still have the technology of the old and there is no point of competing against these neighbors. However, with country’s youth not finding any job and evading the country, army provides some form of job to these citizens. Like you guys yourself said, they can be used for nation development, the way Army corps of engineers were formed in US and the way army was mobilized for civic works (building roads, bridges) during depression era here. Just keeping them and training them in the barracks won’t cut it. Then we should ask to increase our quota in UN missions, sure it fills the pocket of the officers but it also brings a lot of money to the country. With the recent dispute between UN peace keeping department and NA (the former accusing the latter of too many human rights violation issues) this might be a tough sell right now, but the leaders should engage in that and make it a serious priority.