It has been found that the Indian side has not coordinated with the district administration while repairing the dam at the border area between Gaur in Rautahat and Bairgania in India. The Indian side is unilaterally adding soil to the dam. There is an agreement that no physical structure can be built, expanded or changed within ten yards or its vicinity without the consent of the two countries.

The agreement states that structures built in the border area of ​​one country should not cause flooding or environmental damage to the territory of the other. According to the agreement between the two countries, it is prohibited to build high structures such as one-way dams or roads within a certain distance of the border line. On the contrary, India is adding soil in the name of repairing the dam to protect its land from flooding.

India has built a five-kilometer dam up to Bagmati in the east and Banjaraha in the west. Due to which Nepali land has been flooded every year. The addition of soil to the ring dam in the Bairganiya area blocks the natural flow during the rainy season. This inundates the district headquarters Gaur and surrounding areas. Five years ago, during the tenure of the then Chief District Officer Kiran Thapa, when soil was being piled up in this way, the work was stopped after the local administration and security agencies (Armed Police Force) on behalf of Nepal raised strong objections.

Chief District Officer Dinesh Sagar Bhusal had this time also drawn the attention of his Indian counterpart, Sitamadhi District Chief (DM) Ruchi Pandey, stating that soil was being added to the dam. DM Pandey had informed that the central government was also in the process of repairing the dam. After that, Chief District Officer Bhusal sent a video and photo of soil being piled up in the dam to the Ministry of Home Affairs.

‘We had written to the then Home Minister Om Prakash Aryal about the addition of soil to the dam,’ Bhusal said, ‘No further information has come from the home department. I will update on this again.’ In the past, the Chief Minister of Madhesh Province had been drawing the government’s attention to the issue, suggesting that the central government should send a diplomatic note to find a permanent solution to the issue as it is a matter related to the border of the two countries and international treaties. Because the dam is so high, the water of the Lal Bakaiya and Bagmati rivers flowing from Nepal cannot be discharged and the water flow back and enters the Nepali settlements. Locals are protesting on social media, saying that their lives and property have become unsafe due to the Indian move. They have urged the administration to take immediate action in this regard.

After the floods in 2076 BS, former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, former Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa, then Chief Minister of Madhesh Province Lal Babu Raut, then Speaker of the National Assembly Ganesh Prasad Timilsina, MPs Khimlal Bhattarai, Sarita Prasai, Brushesh Chandra Lal, and Pramila Kumari had inspected the border dam on the spot and pointed out the need for diplomatic initiatives. They had said that they had to endure the pain of inundation due to the dam and suggested that the problem should be solved through diplomatic initiatives.

A leader of the Nepali Congress in the district said that the Indian side had unilaterally piled up soil in the name of strengthening the dam before the rains, which had attacked the spirit of the relations between the neighbors and the border treaty.

Spokesperson of the Ministry of Home Affairs Anand Kafle said that he would find out whether the letter sent by the district administration regarding the border dam had reached the ministry. ‘This is a matter related to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs rather than what we do,’ he said, ‘I will say it after understanding what the letter is about.’

Locals say that while there are voices being raised that there is no diplomatic initiative to resolve the problem in the long term, the work of adding soil in the name of repair is being done.’ Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Lok Bahadur Poudel said that he would understand whether the Ministry of Home Affairs has written to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the dam in the border area in Rautahat. ‘I will only say what the reality is,’ he said, ‘If the Ministry of Home Affairs has sent the letter, then we will know what happened.’ Spokespersons of the Ministry of Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs say that something can be said on this issue only after understanding the details mentioned in the letter.’ Spokespersons of the Ministry of Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs say that something can be said on this issue only after understanding the details mentioned in the letter.

In the fifteenth session of the National Assembly, Rautahat MP Pooja Chaudhary drew the government's attention to the fact that it is facing a major disaster after India closed the Sulis Gate (water outlet gate) under the dam built by India on the Nepal-India border during the rainy season. She requested the government to take diplomatic initiatives to open the gates of the dam and Sulis Gate. India had built a 15-foot-high and 5-kilometer-long dam in 2032 BS to protect Bihar's cities including Bairgania from flooding. After that, the problem of flooding began in Nepal. India has been closing 3 gates of the dam in the eastern part of Bairgania. If the water level rises in Nepali territory, the gates should be opened as an emergency.

When the district headquarters Gaur is submerged, angry Nepalis break the dam. To protect the dam from this, a team of Indian Border Security Force (SSB) guards the dam 24 hours a day with weapons. Until 2050, the gates of the dam were opened when water started filling Gaur. Now it is being ignored. Coordination meetings are being held from time to time between security officials of both countries to resolve internal problems and activities including crimes in the border area. In the meetings, the Nepali side has been informing the Indian officials about the flooding problem. Despite the verbal agreement to operate the Sulis Gate as needed for the natural flow of water, India has not shown any interest. At that time, when the dam was being built on the border, the residents of Gaur had taken out a protest march.