Nepal builds helipad in Indian territory

Nepali troops were seen building a helipad and have established a camp of tents at the Indo-Nepal border near Uttrakhand's Pithoragarh district. Sources also claimed that the Nepali Army also built a post 40 km before Kaalapani and hundreds of personnel were dropped there by a helicopter.

Pithoragarh (Uttrakhand): Days after Nepal’s President Bidya Devi Bhandari signed a proposed constitutional amendment that would change the nation’s political map to include strategically important territory also claimed by India, the Nepali troops were seen building a helipad and has established a camp of tents at the Indo-Nepal border.

According to the sources, the Nepali Army also built a post 40 km before Kalapani and hundreds of personnel were dropped there by a helicopter. They were also seen building makeshifts for the soldiers.

India has already termed as "untenable" the "artificial enlargement" of the territorial claims by Nepal after its lower house of Parliament June 14 unanimously approved the new political map of the country featuring Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura areas which India maintains belong to it.

Nepal last month released the revised political and administrative map of the country laying claim over the strategically important areas, more than six months after India published a new map in November 2019.

Earlier on June 18, the National Assembly, or the upper house of the Nepalese parliament, unanimously passed the Constitution amendment bill providing for the inclusion of the country's new political map in its national emblem.