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Border Area Encroachment
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
Members of the Interim Legislators have been putting the pressure on the government for taking up the issue of border encroachment with the Government of India. Nepalese students and the locals concerned by the encroachment of the Nepalese territory had held rallies on the border. There was even a brief skirmish between the Indian Security forces and the Nepalese students on the frontier.
To counter the rally of the Nepalese students’ rally, Indian students affiliated to the Bharatiya Janata Party came to hold a rally on the frontier.
Then, a team of Nepalese members of parliament visited the far western region to see the area reportedly encroached by India. However, the Indian Police force did not permit the team to visit the area stating they did not have an order from the government of India although the border between Nepal and India is open to the citizens of both the countries.
On January 10, 2008, Nepalese Foreign Minister Sahana Pradhan told the Interim Legislature-parliament that the Government of Nepal is preparing for the ministerial level dialogue with the Government of India concerning the border encroachment in January 2008.
According to the news report of the state-run newspaper ‘The Rising Nepal’ of January 11, 2008, Nepalese Foreign Minister Sahana Pradhan also informed the parliament that the Nepal government had already instructed the government technical committee to collect necessary data and documents. “The committee has been discussing with specialists, collecting information and documents from within and outside the country," she said. “The technical work of about 98 per cent border strip mapping has been already completed by the technical committees of the two countries in their meeting held last month," she said. The scientific measurement of Susta and Kalapani has not been done because of the disputes over those areas, she informed the parliament.
