The team also recommended the government to signing the strip map with India only after the entire mapping of the border is finalized. It claimed that the map prepared by the Nepal government in September 2007 for agreement between the two sides is faulty.
Speaking at a press meet in Dhangadhi Sunday, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on International Relations and Human Rights Padamlal Bishwakarma said the team found thousands of bighas of land encroached upon by India. He also said the people have been facing atrocities from Seema Suraksha Bal from India and in some places there is no presence of the state.
The team has recommended the government adding up security posts on the border to reduce encroachment and provide relief to the people from Indian atrocities. The team also said in its finding that loss and shifting of main pillars and change of course by some rivers are some of the reasons that have made it easier for the Indian side to encroach upon Nepali territories.
The team opined that the strip map should be prepared on the basis of 1860 BS map.
"The entire Susta has been encroached upon. The people´s basic rights have been taken away," Bishwakarma said.
The team members also pointed that many VDCs in Banke and Kailali districts are submerged during monsoon as the Laxmanpur and Kailashpuri dam gates, respectively, are shut by India during that time.
On the other side, while India is supposed to release 1,000 cusec of water from Sarada barrage for irrigation on the Nepali side, it releases only 300 cusec.
Bishwakarma said that even though the rivers are common, India takes 90% of water for irrigation purpose. He also said that in Kanchanpur, pillar number 200 is missing and 195 number pillar has fallen apart.
He said the Pyara Lake in Kanchanpur, which is known for its beauty and tourist attraction, is now totally under Indian control.
He also informed that after Mohana river swept Pillar No 706 in Bhajani 9 Kusumghat, some 58 families have been displaced after India encroached upon the land there. Similarly, at Kauwa Kheda of Lalboji, the pillar has been shifted 30 m inwards Nepal.
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