BANKE: A total of 103 pillars have gone missing along the Nepal-India border in Gurdengauri of Banke to Karnali River in Bardiya district. The fact came to the fore during the maintenance of 552 pillars marking the Nepal-India border.
Among them are the main, subsidiary and small ones. However, the situation is that these border markers are not at their proper location.
No one really knows where these border pillars have gone. Among the 103 missing pillars on this stretch of the Nepal-India border, seven are said to be main pillars, five subsidiary ones and 78 are smaller pillars. Similarly, nine border pillars, including four main and five subsidiary ones are missing in Banke district.
India’s Baharaich district borders the Banke and Bardiya districts of Nepal. Banke shares about 65 kilometers and Bardiya about 80 kilometer border with India. The local Mankhola stream separates Banke and Bardiya districts. There are 307 border pillars in Banke sector of the Nepal-India border.
There is a massive presence of SSB force along the border area. The SSB force is seen conducting a patrol in a distance of each one to two kilometers along the no man’s land. The presence of Nepali security force on the Banke section seems weak. A limited number of security forces has been deputed for the border surveillance.
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