Team News Riveting
New Delhi, January 6
The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, today has approved the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Nepal for construction of bridge over Mahakali River at Dharchula (India)- Dharchula (Nepal).
With the signing of MoU, diplomatic relation between the two countries will further improve.
As close neighbours, India and Nepal share unique ties of friendship and cooperation characterized by an open border and deep-rooted people-to-people contacts of kinship and culture. Both India and Nepal have been working together on different regional forums i.e. SAARC, BIMSTEC as well as global fora.
The Mahakali River flows between the border of Nepal and India. This river forms the western international border between Nepal and India and it originates from the Greater Himalayas at Kalapaani.
The river flows at the periphery of the Nepalese Mahakali Zone and the Indian state of Uttarakhand. This site was earlier the Nepalese military base during the Gurkha War.
Mahakali flows for a length of around 223 km length in Nepal and 323.5 km in India up to its confluence with Ghaghra River.
