India-Nepal Relations
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Wait for some serious security situation to arise on the Nepal border and our useless security agencies again getting shocked and feeling betrayed by the "back stab".
The nepalis have already shot Indian citizens twice in the last 2 months. Unprecedented in the last 70 years.
India should immediately-
1. Deploy the bsf or crpf along the Nepal border.
2. Start fencing in vulnerable areas.
3. Initiate measures to replace the 35k odd gorkhas in the army. But this should be a over night operation. Dont give time for rumor mongering and resentment to build up in the gorkha regiments. 70 % of gorkha regiments have Indian origin gorkhas, so effectively the number of regiments reduce by culling the nepalis.
4. Introduce tariffs for nepali imports through indian territory or ports.
5. Introduce work visas for nepalis working in India. But first tell them to exit India and apply.
6. Reduce scholarships for nepali students. Too many in India.
India should stop acting like a dharmshala for nepalis.
The nepalis have already shot Indian citizens twice in the last 2 months. Unprecedented in the last 70 years.
India should immediately-
1. Deploy the bsf or crpf along the Nepal border.
2. Start fencing in vulnerable areas.
3. Initiate measures to replace the 35k odd gorkhas in the army. But this should be a over night operation. Dont give time for rumor mongering and resentment to build up in the gorkha regiments. 70 % of gorkha regiments have Indian origin gorkhas, so effectively the number of regiments reduce by culling the nepalis.
4. Introduce tariffs for nepali imports through indian territory or ports.
5. Introduce work visas for nepalis working in India. But first tell them to exit India and apply.
6. Reduce scholarships for nepali students. Too many in India.
India should stop acting like a dharmshala for nepalis.
Nepal plans helipad on disputed location in Bihar’s West Champaran district
Amid strained relationship with India, the Nepal government is contemplating constructing a helipad at a disputed location on Indo-Nepal border along West Champaran district of Bihar, said Indian officials.
According to officials, the proposed helipad is coming up at Narsahi village, a short distance from Thari border outpost (BOP) of Sashatra Seema Bal (SSB) near Valmiki Tiger Reserve (VTR) in West Champaran district, 80 km from the district headquarters Bettiah.
“According to the information available with us, Nepal is planning to construct a helipad at Narsahi village which is a disputed land on the Indo-Nepal border. A tender for it has already been floated,” said Commandant Rajendra Bhardwaj of 21st Sashatra Seema Bal (SSB) Battalion.
“We have already informed the headquarters about the development,” said the commandant.
Officials blame the changing course of the Gandak river for the controversy around Narsahi on the Indo Nepal border along West Champaran district. “As agreed upon, the central of Gandak river forms the international boundary between Nepal and India. With the river changing its course in the 1970s, Narsahi shifted to the other side of the river and later the Indian citizens living there moved to this part of the Indian territory,” said Bhardwaj.
Known as Sapt Gandaki and Narayani in Nepal, it originates in the Nhubine Himal glacier in Nepal and flows across the Himalayan country before entering India near the Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Bihar. The Gandak river flows another 300 km to meet the Ganga near Patna.
Nepal’s Parliament recently approved a new political map, claiming its territorial command over key areas of Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura in Uttarakhand.
The Indo-Nepal border stretches for more than 800-km along Bihar. Last month Nepal stopped fortification of an embankment for 400 meters on Lal Bakey river in Baluwa- Guabari panchayat in Dhaka block of East Champaran district in Bihar, claiming that some part of the construction fell under its territorial jurisdiction.
Over the past two months there has been friction between the two countries along the border in Bihar.
On July 7, the Sashtra Seema Bal (SSB) foiled a Nepalese bid to put up a board in an area on Bharat-Nepal Matripul which reportedly lies in no man’s land near Raxaul town of East Champaran district of Bihar.
On June 13, Nepalease authorities buried an unclaimed body of a Covid-19 patient in their territory, barely 200 metres from Bharat-Nepal Maitri Pul at Raxaul in East Champaran district, creating panic among the locals.
On June 12, Nepal Armed Police shot dead a youth and wounded two others near Sitamarhi district border following an altercation with them.
On June 26, Nepal’s Armed Police Force (APF) withdrew a temporary camp set up at Pantoka village, appearing to be within Indian territory, near Raxaul town of Bihar’s East Champaran district.
Meanwhile, the SSB have intensified the patrolling along the Indo-Nepal border ahead of Independence Day.
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Amid strained relationship with India, the Nepal government is contemplating constructing a helipad at a disputed location on Indo-Nepal border along West Champaran district of Bihar, said Indian officials.
According to officials, the proposed helipad is coming up at Narsahi village, a short distance from Thari border outpost (BOP) of Sashatra Seema Bal (SSB) near Valmiki Tiger Reserve (VTR) in West Champaran district, 80 km from the district headquarters Bettiah.
“According to the information available with us, Nepal is planning to construct a helipad at Narsahi village which is a disputed land on the Indo-Nepal border. A tender for it has already been floated,” said Commandant Rajendra Bhardwaj of 21st Sashatra Seema Bal (SSB) Battalion.
“We have already informed the headquarters about the development,” said the commandant.
Officials blame the changing course of the Gandak river for the controversy around Narsahi on the Indo Nepal border along West Champaran district. “As agreed upon, the central of Gandak river forms the international boundary between Nepal and India. With the river changing its course in the 1970s, Narsahi shifted to the other side of the river and later the Indian citizens living there moved to this part of the Indian territory,” said Bhardwaj.
Known as Sapt Gandaki and Narayani in Nepal, it originates in the Nhubine Himal glacier in Nepal and flows across the Himalayan country before entering India near the Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Bihar. The Gandak river flows another 300 km to meet the Ganga near Patna.
Nepal’s Parliament recently approved a new political map, claiming its territorial command over key areas of Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura in Uttarakhand.
The Indo-Nepal border stretches for more than 800-km along Bihar. Last month Nepal stopped fortification of an embankment for 400 meters on Lal Bakey river in Baluwa- Guabari panchayat in Dhaka block of East Champaran district in Bihar, claiming that some part of the construction fell under its territorial jurisdiction.
Over the past two months there has been friction between the two countries along the border in Bihar.
On July 7, the Sashtra Seema Bal (SSB) foiled a Nepalese bid to put up a board in an area on Bharat-Nepal Matripul which reportedly lies in no man’s land near Raxaul town of East Champaran district of Bihar.
On June 13, Nepalease authorities buried an unclaimed body of a Covid-19 patient in their territory, barely 200 metres from Bharat-Nepal Maitri Pul at Raxaul in East Champaran district, creating panic among the locals.
On June 12, Nepal Armed Police shot dead a youth and wounded two others near Sitamarhi district border following an altercation with them.
On June 26, Nepal’s Armed Police Force (APF) withdrew a temporary camp set up at Pantoka village, appearing to be within Indian territory, near Raxaul town of Bihar’s East Champaran district.
Meanwhile, the SSB have intensified the patrolling along the Indo-Nepal border ahead of Independence Day.
Nepal plans helipad on disputed location in Bihar’s West Champaran district
Officials of the Sashatra Seema Bal (SSB) say a tender for the helipad has already been floated.
should build a runway next to helipad and show them they are competing out of their league.Nepal plans helipad on disputed location in Bihar’s West Champaran district
Amid strained relationship with India, the Nepal government is contemplating constructing a helipad at a disputed location on Indo-Nepal border along West Champaran district of Bihar, said Indian officials.
According to officials, the proposed helipad is coming up at Narsahi village, a short distance from Thari border outpost (BOP) of Sashatra Seema Bal (SSB) near Valmiki Tiger Reserve (VTR) in West Champaran district, 80 km from the district headquarters Bettiah.
“According to the information available with us, Nepal is planning to construct a helipad at Narsahi village which is a disputed land on the Indo-Nepal border. A tender for it has already been floated,” said Commandant Rajendra Bhardwaj of 21st Sashatra Seema Bal (SSB) Battalion.
“We have already informed the headquarters about the development,” said the commandant.
Officials blame the changing course of the Gandak river for the controversy around Narsahi on the Indo Nepal border along West Champaran district. “As agreed upon, the central of Gandak river forms the international boundary between Nepal and India. With the river changing its course in the 1970s, Narsahi shifted to the other side of the river and later the Indian citizens living there moved to this part of the Indian territory,” said Bhardwaj.
Known as Sapt Gandaki and Narayani in Nepal, it originates in the Nhubine Himal glacier in Nepal and flows across the Himalayan country before entering India near the Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Bihar. The Gandak river flows another 300 km to meet the Ganga near Patna.
Nepal’s Parliament recently approved a new political map, claiming its territorial command over key areas of Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura in Uttarakhand.
The Indo-Nepal border stretches for more than 800-km along Bihar. Last month Nepal stopped fortification of an embankment for 400 meters on Lal Bakey river in Baluwa- Guabari panchayat in Dhaka block of East Champaran district in Bihar, claiming that some part of the construction fell under its territorial jurisdiction.
Over the past two months there has been friction between the two countries along the border in Bihar.
On July 7, the Sashtra Seema Bal (SSB) foiled a Nepalese bid to put up a board in an area on Bharat-Nepal Matripul which reportedly lies in no man’s land near Raxaul town of East Champaran district of Bihar.
On June 13, Nepalease authorities buried an unclaimed body of a Covid-19 patient in their territory, barely 200 metres from Bharat-Nepal Maitri Pul at Raxaul in East Champaran district, creating panic among the locals.
On June 12, Nepal Armed Police shot dead a youth and wounded two others near Sitamarhi district border following an altercation with them.
On June 26, Nepal’s Armed Police Force (APF) withdrew a temporary camp set up at Pantoka village, appearing to be within Indian territory, near Raxaul town of Bihar’s East Champaran district.
Meanwhile, the SSB have intensified the patrolling along the Indo-Nepal border ahead of Independence Day.
Nepal plans helipad on disputed location in Bihar’s West Champaran district
Officials of the Sashatra Seema Bal (SSB) say a tender for the helipad has already been floated.
Rumors are going on that this was ISI's plot to claim Ram janambhoomi in Nepal, vilify SC judgement and cause massive resentments, even riots, in India.
Though this joke didn't cause any harm but intentions were evil.
Oli is playing a dangerous role and should be neutralized asap.
I feel India finds it more reasonable to directly engage with Nepali people through economic & social connect rather than going in circles with Nepali government administration. Maybe SriLankan saga once again? Just my thoughts.
PM Oli breaks ice with PM Modi on I-Day, tweets from top Nepal leaders follow
Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Saturday dialled Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday to wish India on its 74th Independence Day, the first direct contact between the two leaders in four months. PM Oli’s ice-breaking phone call was quickly followed by tweets from Nepal’s former prime ministers, Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ and Madhav Nepal of the ruling Nepal Communist Party, and Sher Bahadur Deuba, president of the opposition Nepali Congress.
PM Oli had set up a row over an 80-km road built by the Border Roads Organisation in April this year and issued a new map the next month that depicts Indian territories, Kalapani and Lipulekh as part of Nepalese territory.
A statement by the external affairs ministry said PM Oli greeted the government and people of India on the occasion of its 74th Independence Day. He also conveyed congratulations for India’s recent election as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.
“The leaders expressed mutual solidarity in the context of the efforts being made to minimise the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in both countries,” the statement said.
Prime Minister Modi offered India’s continued support to Nepal to deal with the pandemic and “recalled the civilizational and cultural links that India and Nepal share”.
The two prime ministers had last spoken on April 10, a conversation that had focussed on the Covid-induced lockdown and the problems being faced by people on both sides of the border.
PM Oli’s early morning tweet, and then the phone call, was followed up by more tweets from across Nepal’s political spectrum.
“I would like to convey my heartfelt greetings and congratulations to PM Modi ji, his government and people of India,” tweeted Dahal, better known by his nom de guerre Prachanda.
Madhav Nepal tweeted his letter to PM Modi that expressed optimism about the future of India-Nepal relations. “We are confident that Nepal-India relations based as they are on close cooperation, historical ties and people-to-people contacts, would continue to grow in coming years to the satisfaction of the people of two countries,” Madav Nepal’s letter said.
Deuba, who heads the lead opposition party Nepali Congress, extended “cordial greetings and best wishes to the friendly people and the government of India” in his tweet.
In his Independence Day address early on Saturday, PM Modi had stressed on peace and harmony in the South Asia region. “All the leaders of the countries of the region have a huge responsibility, an important responsibility for the development and progress of such a vast population,” he said.
“The more peace and harmony there is in this whole region, the more it will work for the welfare of humanity,” he said of the region that is home to a quarter of the world’s population. PM Modi also spoke about New Delhi’s efforts to forge deeper connections with India’s neighbours.
PM Oli’s phone call comes days ahead of the meeting of the India-Nepal body overseeing the implementation of development projects funded by New Delhi that is scheduled to meet in Kathmandu next week.
This meeting between Indian ambassador Vinay Mohan Kwatra and Nepal’s foreign secretary Shanker Das Bairagi is also the first between the two sides after the row over Nepal’s new map took relations to a new low.
India has been sharply critical of Kathmandu’s decision to issue a new map, describing it as untenable and an “artificial enlargement of claims” that isn’t based on historical facts or evidence. “It is also violative of our current understanding to hold talks on outstanding boundary issues,” New Delhi said in June this year after lawmakers cleared an amendment to incorporate the new map in Nepal’s emblem.
Indian officials had, however, made it clear that New Delhi would not hold back on assistance granted to Nepal due to the boundary row and would continue to focus on deepening people-to-people ties between the two countries. It was in this context that the Indian army had earlier this month gifted 10 ventilators to Nepalese army.
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Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Saturday dialled Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday to wish India on its 74th Independence Day, the first direct contact between the two leaders in four months. PM Oli’s ice-breaking phone call was quickly followed by tweets from Nepal’s former prime ministers, Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ and Madhav Nepal of the ruling Nepal Communist Party, and Sher Bahadur Deuba, president of the opposition Nepali Congress.
PM Oli had set up a row over an 80-km road built by the Border Roads Organisation in April this year and issued a new map the next month that depicts Indian territories, Kalapani and Lipulekh as part of Nepalese territory.
A statement by the external affairs ministry said PM Oli greeted the government and people of India on the occasion of its 74th Independence Day. He also conveyed congratulations for India’s recent election as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.
“The leaders expressed mutual solidarity in the context of the efforts being made to minimise the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in both countries,” the statement said.
Prime Minister Modi offered India’s continued support to Nepal to deal with the pandemic and “recalled the civilizational and cultural links that India and Nepal share”.
The two prime ministers had last spoken on April 10, a conversation that had focussed on the Covid-induced lockdown and the problems being faced by people on both sides of the border.
PM Oli’s early morning tweet, and then the phone call, was followed up by more tweets from across Nepal’s political spectrum.
“I would like to convey my heartfelt greetings and congratulations to PM Modi ji, his government and people of India,” tweeted Dahal, better known by his nom de guerre Prachanda.
Madhav Nepal tweeted his letter to PM Modi that expressed optimism about the future of India-Nepal relations. “We are confident that Nepal-India relations based as they are on close cooperation, historical ties and people-to-people contacts, would continue to grow in coming years to the satisfaction of the people of two countries,” Madav Nepal’s letter said.
Deuba, who heads the lead opposition party Nepali Congress, extended “cordial greetings and best wishes to the friendly people and the government of India” in his tweet.
In his Independence Day address early on Saturday, PM Modi had stressed on peace and harmony in the South Asia region. “All the leaders of the countries of the region have a huge responsibility, an important responsibility for the development and progress of such a vast population,” he said.
“The more peace and harmony there is in this whole region, the more it will work for the welfare of humanity,” he said of the region that is home to a quarter of the world’s population. PM Modi also spoke about New Delhi’s efforts to forge deeper connections with India’s neighbours.
PM Oli’s phone call comes days ahead of the meeting of the India-Nepal body overseeing the implementation of development projects funded by New Delhi that is scheduled to meet in Kathmandu next week.
This meeting between Indian ambassador Vinay Mohan Kwatra and Nepal’s foreign secretary Shanker Das Bairagi is also the first between the two sides after the row over Nepal’s new map took relations to a new low.
India has been sharply critical of Kathmandu’s decision to issue a new map, describing it as untenable and an “artificial enlargement of claims” that isn’t based on historical facts or evidence. “It is also violative of our current understanding to hold talks on outstanding boundary issues,” New Delhi said in June this year after lawmakers cleared an amendment to incorporate the new map in Nepal’s emblem.
Indian officials had, however, made it clear that New Delhi would not hold back on assistance granted to Nepal due to the boundary row and would continue to focus on deepening people-to-people ties between the two countries. It was in this context that the Indian army had earlier this month gifted 10 ventilators to Nepalese army.
PM Oli breaks ice with PM Modi on I-Day, tweets from top Nepal leaders follow
Prime Minister Modi offered India’s continued support to Nepal to deal with the pandemic and “recalled the civilizational and cultural links that India and Nepal share”.
When land comes in the way: India’s connectivity infrastructure in Nepal
Around half of the Indian government’s economic assistance to neighboring countries in South Asia goes to the infrastructure sector, including roads, railways, ports, and other projects. Between 2014-18, this total investment in cross-border connectivity amounted to around Rs10,000 crores (approximately US$ 1,461 million). [1] These development cooperation projects are a critical component for India to achieve one of its most important foreign policy objectives: to tie its domestic economy closer to neighbouring countries and accelerate regional integration.
Funded by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and executed by Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) or private contractors, most of the Indian infrastructure projects are situated in the neighbouring countries of Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Myanmar. However, a vast majority of these investments have faced chronic delays, or even halted, due to a myriad of challenges. Access to unimpeded land in these neighbouring countries is among the most significant reasons why India’s infrastructure projects get bogged down. This is due to both the Indian and host governments’ lack of expert and technical capacity on land issues – including on managing records, property right frameworks, litigation and lack of enforcement, or deficiencies in surveying.
This paper examines these issues in the case of Nepal. Focused on in-depth case studies of two Indian-funded projects in Nepal – 1) The East-West Postal road (or Hulaki Rajmarg) project, and 2) The Jogbani-Biratnagar cross-border railway line – it surveys the institutional impediments and expertise deficiencies that led to years of delays in the process of land acquisition. Such issues led to protracted problems, on the ground between central, local, public, and private Nepali stakeholders, to occasional tensions in bilateral government relations, and most importantly, to significant escalation in costs to India’s public exchequer.
Additionally, the paper also contributes to the evolving policy and institutional debates on how the Indian government, and the MEA in particular, can enhance its expert and technical capacity to engage in future land acquisition processes abroad, especially in the case of Nepal and other neighbouring countries. It makes the case for the Indian government, via MEA, to:
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Around half of the Indian government’s economic assistance to neighboring countries in South Asia goes to the infrastructure sector, including roads, railways, ports, and other projects. Between 2014-18, this total investment in cross-border connectivity amounted to around Rs10,000 crores (approximately US$ 1,461 million). [1] These development cooperation projects are a critical component for India to achieve one of its most important foreign policy objectives: to tie its domestic economy closer to neighbouring countries and accelerate regional integration.
Funded by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and executed by Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) or private contractors, most of the Indian infrastructure projects are situated in the neighbouring countries of Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Myanmar. However, a vast majority of these investments have faced chronic delays, or even halted, due to a myriad of challenges. Access to unimpeded land in these neighbouring countries is among the most significant reasons why India’s infrastructure projects get bogged down. This is due to both the Indian and host governments’ lack of expert and technical capacity on land issues – including on managing records, property right frameworks, litigation and lack of enforcement, or deficiencies in surveying.
This paper examines these issues in the case of Nepal. Focused on in-depth case studies of two Indian-funded projects in Nepal – 1) The East-West Postal road (or Hulaki Rajmarg) project, and 2) The Jogbani-Biratnagar cross-border railway line – it surveys the institutional impediments and expertise deficiencies that led to years of delays in the process of land acquisition. Such issues led to protracted problems, on the ground between central, local, public, and private Nepali stakeholders, to occasional tensions in bilateral government relations, and most importantly, to significant escalation in costs to India’s public exchequer.
Additionally, the paper also contributes to the evolving policy and institutional debates on how the Indian government, and the MEA in particular, can enhance its expert and technical capacity to engage in future land acquisition processes abroad, especially in the case of Nepal and other neighbouring countries. It makes the case for the Indian government, via MEA, to:
- Encourage interactions between diplomatic generalists and various domestic Indian expert stakeholders involved in land governance and property rights at the central and state levels. This should help in the development of clear benchmarks for all land and property-rights related issues involving Indian infrastructure projects abroad.
- Deepen bilateral engagements between Indian officials and their counterparts in Nepal to exchange best practices on property rights and land acquisition governance, including, for example, digitisation of land records.
- Coordinate with other national and multilateral development cooperation agencies to exchange best practices and develop Indian guidelines and standards for land acquisition, resettlement, and rehabilitation processes abroad. This could, for example, include the Asian Development Bank and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank or the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
When land comes in the way: India’s connectivity infrastructure in Nepal
Around half of the Indian government’s economic assistance to neighbouring countries in South Asia goes to the infrastructure sector, including roads, railways, ports, and other projects. Between 2…
Nepalese journalist who reported on Chinese encroachment in Nepal village, found dead
The 50-year-old journalist’s body was found at the banks of Bagmati River near the hydropower project area in Mandu, local media report quoted the spokesperson at District Police Office (DPO), Makwanpur, as saying.
That’s how communists operate. Even normal Nepalis fear them.