FGESN team to head to UK

Kathmandu, November 27:

A four-member delegation of the Federation of the Gurkha Ex-Servicemen Nepal (FGESN) is leaving for London on November 29 to meet the Gurkhas’ Terms and Conditions of Service (TACOS) Review Team and secretary of State for the Armed Forces. The delegation will put forth the demands to form a committee with a mandate to review pension rates of those Gurkhas who retired prior to 1 July, 1997 and settlement visas to the UK for all of them without discrimination.