Kathmandu, May 4 -- The government has made yet another promise to cooperatives victims with regard to returning their deposits from fraudulent organisations.

The KP Sharma Oli government, in its policies and programmes presented by President Ramchandra Paudel to a joint session of the federal parliament on Friday, has committed to establish a fund through which the small-scale cooperatives victims would get back their deposits.

However, the victims said that they don't trust the announcement as successive governments have betrayed them after making promises.

Last year, the government in its annual budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 had committed to return depositors' money up to Rs500,000 in the first phase.

Then-finance minister Bar...