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  • Nepal cabinet has recently approved printing of new denominations of 100 of Nepalese currency featuring a map that includes Indian territories of Limpiyadhura, Lipulekh, and Kalapani.
    • Previously, in 2020, Nepal passed its second Constitution Amendment Bill which provided legal status to its claims over these territories.

 

  • Kalapani is the largest territorial dispute between Nepal and India and is a tri-junction between India, Nepal and Tibet (China).

 

  • Origin of the dispute
    • Treaty of Sagauli (1816) between British East India Company and the then Nepali Gurkha rulers demarcated Uttarakhand’s Kumaon with River Kali as a boundary between India and Nepal.
    • Key to the disagreement is the origin of River Kali.
      • Nepal considers the river which flows to the west of Kalapani as the main River Kali, originating at either Limpiyadhura or the nearby Lipulekh pass. Hence, justifying the area as inherent part of Nepal.
      • India, however, argues that River Kali originates from a smaller rivulet named Pankhagad, lying on the southern portion of Kalapani and the subsequent ridge on the eastern part of this area as true border.

 

  • India’s stand on the dispute: All these three territories belong to India and termed Nepal’s constitutional amendment as unilateral act, artificial enlargement and untenable. 

 

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