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Indian Encroachment On Nepalese Land
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
March 18, 2010: in its report on the Indian encroachment on the Nepalese territory, the legislative Committee on Foreign Relations and Human Rights has said that India has encroached 60,000 hectares of the Nepalese land at the 15 districts bordering with India, the maximum encroachment has been 14,000 hectares at the Susta area according to the news published in the state-run newspaper ‘Gorkhapatra’ of March 17, 2010.
After submitting the report on the Indian encroachment on the Nepalese territory to the Speaker of the Constituent Assembly-cum-legislature Subash Nemwang, at the press conference held at Singhadurbar in Kathmandu, Chairman of Committee on Foreign Relations and Human Rights Padma Lal Biswokarma has told the reporters that he has informed about the Indian encroachment on the Nepalese territory to the Ministers and Secretaries to Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Home, and Ministry of Land Reform.
Members of the Committee on Foreign Relations and Human Rights have traveled to Susta of Nawalparasi district, Khurdlochan dam of Rupandehi district, border area of Kapilvastu district, Chaugujhi area of Bardiya district, Laxamanpur dam and Kalkalava barrage and so on. Most of the boundary poles have been uprooted and Indians have been residing at the areas although Nepalis have been holding the Nepalese certificates of landownership of those areas.
The Committee on Foreign Relations and Human Rights has made 30-point recommendations to the government for resolving the border problems.
Immediately after Sujata Koirala has become the Minister for Foreign Affairs following the meeting with Indian Ambassador Rakesh Sood has said that Nepal and Indian have no border problems while the Nepalese media have been publicizing the large scale Indian encroachment on the Nepalese territory and the Indian Border Security Force harassing the Nepalis living at the bordering areas.
