JOINT TEAM INSPECTS COMPLAINTS OF INDIAN ENCROACHMENT ALONG BORDER

INDO-NEPAL JOINT INSPECTION TEAM SURVEYS INDIAN ENCROACHMENT

Kathmandu, 24 March: A joint team of security officials from Nepal and India made a field visit in different disputed areas along the Nepal India border after repeated cases of land encroachment from the Indian side, RSS reports from Rajbiraj.

A joint team of security officials visited an embankment constructed in Khadokhola and Jitakhola at Kunauli, the bordering area between the two countries, and no-man's land as well, said Administrative Officer of District Administration Office, Saptari, Om Prakash Mehata.

Likewise, a meeting of Nepali security officials and Indian Seema Surakshya Bal (SSB) was also held on Friday in Supaul district of Bihar of India over the land encroachment issue from the Indian side.

Indian nationals, allegedly shifting the border pillars, have been farming in Nepali land and have also built dams which pose a threat of inundation in the rainy seasons to at least half a dozen VDCs.

In the recent past, the Indian locals encroached lands in Tilathi VDC of Saptari by uprooting the border pillar 223/13, locals said.
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FEMALE JOURNALISTS SEEK SAFETY IN MEET WITH PM
Kathmndu, 24 March: The women journalists have submitted an 11-point memorandum to the Prime Minister, demanding the guarantee of professional safety and quality representation, RSS reports.

The office bearers of the women journalists´ organization, Sancharika Samuha and Working Women Journalists reached the Prime Ministers´ residence Baluwatar on Saturday and apprised him of their problems.

Receiving the memorandum, Prime Minister Dr Bhattarai said women journalists themselves should be aware and active to achieve and guarantee their rights.

Prime Minister Dr Bhattarai said legal provisions would be devised to address the problems of the women journalists including that of making them permanent if has worked for long in contract.

He suggested them forming an umbrella organization of the women journalists so that government could help on building physical infrastructures.

Among 8,000 working journalists in Nepal, the women hold only 10 percent.

On the occasion, the women journalists demanded the government help ensure minimum wage to them, appointment letters, special subsidy to the media house run by the women journalists and others.
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