Nepal halts road work on no-man’s land

PILIBHIT: The road construction being carried out by Nepalese authorities on no man’s land at the India-Nepal border has been stopped, Pilibhit district magistrate Vaibhav Srivastava said.
“We felt that there was some construction going on at the no man’s land but Nepalese authorities have assured us that it would come to a stop,” Srivastava said. The district administration received information on Sunday that a road is being constructed from the Nepal side at no man’s land near Pillar No. 38 in Pilibhit’s Hazara area on the India-Nepal border.
On receiving the information, DM Srivastava, superintendent of police Jayaprakash and DIG H N S Bisht reached the border with SSB personnel. Srivastava added, “Border pillars have been identified by survey teams of both the countries. They
will be built as soon as possible with the help of the survey team.