Out of the total combatants discharged from the camp and those returning home, 63 have started taking formal education with the financial support from the United Nations Children´s Fund (UNICEF).
The former combatants have been provided with education materials free of cost and Rs. 1,800 to coax them into formal education.
Conflict-hit children and youth, who like to join informal education as part of reunion programme will also be provided with Rs. 100,000 per head for four years, said project coordinator Prakash Adhikari.
He said that 24 persons from Ilam, 15 from Panchthar, eight from Taplejung, seven from Jhapa and nine from Terhrathum districts have already started formal education and 12 others are in process.
Most of them have been pursuing higher secondary education after passing SLC exam from camp where they were living earlier.
It has been reported that some other organisations have been providing the ex-rebels with skill, health service trainings and others besides formal education.
A total of 3,008 former PLA fighters under 18 years of age were discharged from several camps across the count.
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