Nepal-India border inspections, which were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, have resumed after seven years, and fallen, drifted, and missing border posts have been repaired and reconstructed.
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The Nepal-India Joint Border Survey Team has completed the on-site study and inspection of the border area from Kailali to Darchula in the Far West from Chaitra to the first week of Asad.
During the study of the condition of the border area, the joint team of both countries has also reported that it has repaired and reconstructed the fallen and broken border pillars.
The work of studying the condition of the border pillars, which had been stopped for a long time due to various reasons, has resumed after 7 years. This time, technicians from the joint team of both countries have been deployed in 4 different teams from the east to the far west and have identified the fallen, fallen and lost pillars and carried out the repair and reconstruction work within a period of 3 months. ‘The study of the condition of the border pillars, which was stopped for various reasons since the Corona period 7 years ago, has resumed,’ said Gyanendra Kumar Bista, Chief Survey Officer of the Survey Department, the head of the Nepali team deployed in the Far West. ‘There is a program to deploy the joint team again in the coming Mangshir.’
According to Bista, the head of the Nepali team, the participating technicians of the joint team from both Nepal and India started from Khakraula in Kailali and reached Darchula to complete the inspection of the border area and the repair and reconstruction of the condition pillars as per the first phase of the work order. The team consisted of 6 people from the Survey Department of Nepal and 6 technicians from the Survey Department of India in Dehradun, India.
The head of the Indian team in the Far West was Mukesh Kumar, Survey Officer of the Survey Department of India. Nepali team chief Bista informed that 52 auxiliary border pillars that were washed away by floods, buried in rivers and streams, collapsed and disappeared at different times during the past 3 months have been repaired.
According to him, 11 auxiliary pillars have been reconstructed along with 1 main border pillar. ‘The largest number of auxiliary pillars washed away by floods have been reconstructed in the areas around the estuary of Kailali and the Mahakali River in Kanchanpur,’ Informing that the border was determined using GPS while identifying the pillars, Nepali team chief Bista said, ‘11 auxiliary pillars, 7 in Kanchanpur and 4 in Kailali, have been reconstructed.’ 1 main border pillar has been constructed in the rehabilitation area of Kanchanpur.’
The Nepal-India joint task force had a mandate to work outside the disputed border area. Bista said that the repair, reconstruction and other work was carried out with the consent of both sides after on-site inspection of the collapsed and missing pillars in areas where there is no border dispute. The team inspected and studied 402 pillars, including the main border pillar number 812 at Gaddachauki in Kanchanpur and 927/3 in Darchula, besides the disputed area, informed the head of the Nepali team, Bista. After completing the first phase of this year's border situation study and inspection work, the surveyors from both countries' teams have closed the current survey office and returned to their departments, said the team head, Bista.
