Current Affairs
India – Nepal issues
Synopsis:
(01) NaMo to Nepal
(02) Agreements signed b/w India
and Nepal
(03) Power Trade Agreement
(04) Power Trade Vs Power Development
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(01) Narendra Modi visit to Nepal:
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In Aug 2014
(02) Agreements signed b/w India
and Nepal:
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India – Nepal
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Infra Structure
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* HIT – Highways, Information ways, Transways
* Modi promised them $1 billion loan for
infrastructure and energy projects
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Border
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* Will form Boundary working group – to construct
boundary pillars
* Joint Commission on border issues
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Energy
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* Raxaul – Amlekhgunj petroleum pipeline
* Hydel power projects – Upper Karnali, ArunIII, Upper Marsyangdi and Tamakoshi III
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Transport
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* Cross border railways – at 5 border points, 4
integrated check posts
* Bridges – over Mahakali Rier at Mahendra Nagar
* India
to allow 3 addition air entries – Janakpur, Bhairahawam and Nepalgunj
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3 MoU
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* Pancheshwar Developmental Authority
* Tourism in Nepal
* Doordarshan and Nepal TV
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Trade
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* India
will remove quantitative restrictions on Nepalese products
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Miscellaneous
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* Grant to provide iodized salt to Nepalis
* Donated 2500 kgs of sandalwood to Lord Pashupathinath
Temple
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(03) Power Trade Agreement:
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Happened in September 2014, after Modi came back.
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Now any Nepali public or private entity can sell electricity to India.
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India wanted to setup a joint venture Company with Nepal -
for trading electricity. But Nepali Government did not agree.
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India even offered to help
developing Nepal’s
hydro-electricity power but their political factions disagreed.
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Modi has earlier said- Nepal
has immense hydropower and just be selling electricity to India, they can
become a developed country
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Includes
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Excludes
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electricity power trade, cross-border transmission,
inter-connection and grid-connectivity
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Indian investment in Nepali power sector.
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(03) Power Trade Vs Power Development:
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Power Trade Agreement
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Power Development Pact
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Between respective Governments of Nepal and India
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Between GMR India with Nepali Government to
develop Karnali hydropower.
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Signed with consensus of Maoists and other
political factions of Nepal.
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Nepali maoists don’t like this, not one bit so
they’ve began protests.
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