Nepal approves new map incorporating Kalapani, Limpiyadhura, Lipulekh

The Lipulekh Pass is claimed by Nepal based on the 1816 Treaty of Sugauli it entered with the British colonial rulers to define its western border with India

Yubraj Khatiwada, Minister of Finance and Information and Communication, announced that a new political map of Nepal is being issued.

"The updated map of Nepal presented by the Ministry of Land Management in today's Council of Ministers meeting has been endorsed. The new map incorporates northern, southern, western and eastern International borderlines as well as includes the political and administrative arrangements," Khatiwada, also the government spokesperson said on Monday.

"This new map will be used in all kinds of documents which has been enforced on by government," he added.

Nepal's President Bidhya Devi Bhandari, while reading out Plans and Policies of the Government