Team News Riveting
Months after launching contentious new maps of Nepal that included Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura areas of Uttarakhand, the Himalayan nation has now withdrawn the textbook that included it.
The move is seen as a step towards possible conciliation following India-Nepal relation hitting low in recent past.
The 110-pages-long book titled “Self Study Material on Nepal’s Territory” has been prescribed for the students of 9th and 12th grades. It included a chapter on the campaign to reclaim the ‘disputed’ territory with India.
The book included a preface written by the incumbent Education Minister of Nepal Giriraj Mani Pokhrel.
The Prime Minister, KP Sharma Oli had himself suggested to the Education Ministry of Nepal to stop the distribution of the said book to high school students. The development added significance as back in May, it was he who had led the passage of a constitutional amendment in the Parliament for revision of the Nepal map. The amendment was unanimously approved by all political parties of Nepal.
This had received major pushback from Indian establishment, which had termed Nepal’s “artificial enlargement” of the territorial claims as untenable.
