The Constitution of Nepal (Second Amendment 2077) Act provided the legal status to a new map of
Nepal to be used in the country's
national emblem by amending Schedule 3 (Coat of Arms) in the
Constitution of Nepal. The
Council of Ministers of Nepal had announced the new map on 20 May 2020 and two days later it was placed in the Parliament.
On 13 June 2020, the motion was put forth for voting in the lower house of Nepal's Parliament by the government of Prime Minister
KP Sharma Oli. Voting was unanimous with ayes being 258 with no nays.
On 18 June 2020, the Upper House unanimously passed the Bill after which the President of Nepal
Bidhya Devi Bhandari signed the Bill.
The new map places
Limpiyadhura,
Lipulekh
Lipulekh () is a Himalayan pass in Kalapani territory is on the border of India, Nepal and China. It is one of the routes for the pilgrimage to Mount Kailash and Mansarovar in Tibet, China.
Tourism
This pass links the Byans valley of Uttarakh ...
and
Kalapani as territory under Nepal.
Nepal claims the area as per the
Treaty of Sugauli
The Treaty of Sugauli (also spelled Sugowlee, Sagauli and Segqulee), the treaty that established the boundary line of Nepal, was signed on 4 March 1816 between the East India Company and Guru Gajaraj Mishra following the Anglo-Nepalese War ...
and claims that India was granted permission for troop movement in the area in the 1950s, but since then India has refused to move them back.
The move also comes ahead of the Prime Minister of Nepal facing calls to step down, and days after India opened a road through Lipulekh to
Lake Mansarovar in the
Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
In November 2019 India had issued a new map in which Kalapani, a disputed territory according to Nepal, was shown as Indian territory.
The map showed the regions as part of
Uttarakhand.
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Constitution of Nepal