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Nepal approves new map including Lipulekh, Kalapani, Limpiyadhura amidst border row with India
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Human rights activists hold placards during a protest against India's newly inaugurated link road to the Chinese border, near Indian embassy in Kathmandu on May 12, 2020. - Nepal protested India's inauguration of a new road to China that passes through territory claimed by Kathmandu on May 9, with police detaining dozens of demonstrators. (Photo by AFP)
Human rights activists hold placards during a protest against India's newly inaugurated link road to the Chinese border, near Indian embassy in Kathmandu on May 12, 2020. - Nepal protested India's inauguration of a new road to China that passes through territory claimed by Kathmandu on May 9, with police detaining dozens of demonstrators. (Photo by AFP)

ove may escalate unnecessary tension between Nepal and India at a time when the country is fighting the coronavirus.

"The Nepal government should soon start a dialogue with India to resolve the matter through political and diplomatic moves," he said.

The new map includes 335-km land area including Limpiyadhura in the Nepalese territory.

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The new map was drawn on the basis of the Sugauli Treaty of 1816 signed between Nepal and then the British India government and other relevant documents, which suggests Limpiyadhura, from where the Kali river originated, is Nepal's border with India, The Kathmandu Post quoted an official at the Ministry of Land Reform and Management as saying.

President Bidhya Bhandari, addressing Parliament last week, reiterated that Limpiyadhura, Kalapani and Lipulekh belong to Nepal and appropriate diplomatic measures will be adopted to resolve the existing issues with India.

India and Nepal are at a row after the Indian side issued a new political map incorporating Kalapani and Lipulekh on its side of the border in October last year.

The tension further escalated after India inaugurated a road link connecting Kailash Mansarovar, a holy pilgrimage site situated at Tibet, China, that passes through the territory belonging to Nepal.

The 80-Km new road inaugurated by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh earlier this month is expected to help pilgrims visiting Kailash-Mansarovar in Tibet in China as it is around 90 kms from the Lipulekh pass.

"The road follows the pre-existing route used by the pilgrims of the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra," spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs Anurag Srivastava said in New Delhi recently.

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(Published 19 May 2020, 16:40 IST)