Nepal govt preparing to send the newly updated map to India, Google, UN and international community

Upping its ante against India, the Nepal government is preparing to send the newly updated map, which includes Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura as its integral part, to the United Nations and Google by mid-august, Nepali media reported on Saturday. 

These areas also feature on India’s map.

“Nepal to send new updated map to India, United Nations, Google and international communities by middle of this month,” Padma Aryal, Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation told ANI. 

The ministry, according to the ANI report, has asked the Department of Measurement to print 4,000 copies of the new map in English and send it to the



international community. 

The map, released by Nepal on 20 May, was rejected by India. Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Anurag Srivastava had said that the “revision is a unilateral act and it is not based on historical facts and evidences”. “Such artificial enlargement of territorial claims will not be accepted by us,” he had added. 

“This artificial enlargement of claims is not based on historical fact or evidence and is not tenable. It is also violative of our current understanding to hold talks on outstanding boundary issues,” he said. 

The amendment was later also passed by Nepal’s upper house of Parliament.