Nepal unveiled a new 100-rupee note on Thursday that features a revised national map including disputed areas such as the Kalapani, Lipulekh, and Limpiyadhura territories. These are regions that India maintains are its own.
The External Affairs Ministry has denounced Nepal’s map and said that it is a ‘unilateral act’ that “does not change ground reality”.
The row regarding the map has been ongoing since a year now, and India had cautioned Nepal that such “artificial enlargement” of territorial claims will not be acceptable.
Government sources have told NDTV that the issue is being discussed between the countries, and that the “dialogues between Nepal and India regarding boundary, border areas, are ongoing within that framework”.
They further added, “On territorial claims, our position remains that such claims are neither justified nor based on historical facts and evidence. Any unilateral artificial enlargement of territorial claims is untenable.”
New Delhi has upheld that it is open to “constructive interaction” with Kathmandu on resolving boundary issues through “dialogue and diplomacy”.