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Nepal wants to resolve Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyudhara areas dispute so that India and Nepal can have an undisputed, peaceful stable boundary
Kalapani
Kalapani is a 372-sq km area at the China-Nepal-India tri-junction. India claims Kalapani as a part of Uttarakhand while Nepal depicts the area in its map.
Kalapani dipute
- The Kalapani dispute between Nepal and India was aroused when India publishes a revised political map in November 2019 that shows the newly created Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.
- Both the countries laid claim to Kalapani. The map showed Kalapani as part of Pithoragarh.
- As a result, Nepal protested immediately and drew attention to the issue.
Reason behind the dispute
- Kalapani region derives its name from the Kali river. Nepal claims the region as the river became the marker of the boundary of the kingdom Nepal following the Treaty of Sugauli.
- The treaty of Sugauli was signed between the Gurkha rulers of Kathmandu and the East India Company after the Gurkha War/Anglo-Nepal War during 1814-16. In 1816, the treaty was ratified.
- As per the treaty, the regions of Kumaon-Garhwal in the west and Sikkim in the east were lost by Nepal.
- As per Article 5, the King of Nepal gave up his claims over the region west of the river Kali which originated in the High Himalayas and flows into the great plains of the Indian subcontinent.
- Also according to the treaty, the rulers of the British recognised the right of Nepal's to the region that fell to the east of the Kali river.
Source: The Hindu
