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India Encroaches Nepalese Land But Denies It
The state-run newspaper “The Rising Nepal” of December 21, 2007 quoting border experts reported that India has already encroached over 60,000 hectares of Nepalese land in 21 out of 26 bordering districts and the encroachment is continuing. Of them, over 36,000 hectares at Pipli Dhura in Kalapani of Darchula district, 14,000 in Susta of Nawalparasi District, 16,000 in Mechi River Embankment area Kakarvitta, Mandan Jot, Maheshpur, Pathamari and others. Similarly, half-a-kilometer flat land at Dhori of Parsa and Chitwan districts, two hectares land in Sandakpur, a bordering area between Ilam and Panchthar districts and 40 square kilometres in Pashupatinagar of Ilam have been encroached by Indians.
However, the private-run newspaper “The Himalayan Times” of December 20, 2007 reported that at a three-day meeting of the joint technical committee, participated by Chief of the Survey Department of Nepal Toyanath Baral and Surveyor General of India CM Gopal Rao, and concluded on December 19, 2007, the Indian team categorically denied the encroachment of the Nepalese land in Susta and challenged the Nepalese team to show the proof of encroachment. The teams at the meeting of the Nepal-India Joint Level Technical Committee on Boundary prepared 182 maps. The map will officially mark the territorial limits of the two neighboring countries.
