KATHMANDU: The Department of Survey is set to announce the new height of the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest on Tuesday.
A meeting of the Council of Ministers held on November 25 gave the approval to the Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation to make public the new height of Mt Everest.
The Ministry of Land Management had recommended this to the Council of Ministers.
The Government of Nepal has spent millions of rupees to measure the height of Mt Everest, which was started in the fiscal year 2007/08.
Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation Padma Aryal had even chartered a helicopter to visit Mt. Everest.
The government has spent tens of millions to measure the height of Everest after the Department of Survey estimated that the 2015 earthquake may have affected the height of Everest.
After receiving the approval from the Council of Ministers, the ministry is going to make the new height of Everest public by making a program in a few days.
During Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Nepal in 2019, it was agreed to jointly declare the height of Mount Everest.
Accordingly, government teams from Nepal and China were deployed to measure the height of Mount Everest.
The height of Everest, which was last measured by the Survey of India in 1954 fixed 8848 meters as the height of Mt Everest.
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