Nepal and India have agreed to install global positioning system (GPS) in every boundary pillar between the two neighbouring countries. The decision was taken during the Survey General-level second Nepal-India Boundary Working Group (BWG) meet held at Dehradun, in India, on August 26-27.
It was agreed that the two countries will set up 83 control points in their vicinity across the 1,880-km border on two sides to install the GPS system in all the 8,553 boundary pillars along the Nepal-India border.
"The installation of GPS in all boundary pillars will ensure relocating of pillars if they are damaged by any natural disaster or other human encroachment. Once the GPS observation is fitted in these pillars, it will make it easy to relocate and reconstruct the pillars in case of damage, which will be tracked by the GPS system later," said Director General of Department of Survey Madusudhan Adhikari who led the Nepali delegation during the meet.
BWG is one of the highest bilateral technical body, mandated to restore the border pillars damaged due to any cause, undertake the construction, restoration and repair, clearing 'no-man's land' of both sides of the border, except Kalapani and Susta based on facts and figure and according to the strip maps prepared in 2007 by both sides.
Nepal and India had prepared 182 sheets of strip maps of the boundary except Susta and Kalapani in 2007.
The two countries agreed for GPS system as damage to border pillars and their relocation in exact points without any dispute has emerged as one of the major hiccups in maintaining and identifying real positioning of the Nepal-India boundary issue.
