Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his first visit to Nepal on Monday after the 2019 re-election will focus on strengthening bilateral relations on the cultural pillars shared by cultural values, communication, power and education, people familiar with the matter said.
Modi will meet Nepalese Prime Minister Sher BahadurDeuba in Lumbini, the birthplace of Prince Siddhartha who became a Buddhist after enlightenment in Bodh Gaya in India, on Monday after a short helicopter flight from Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh, where the King found Nirvana. after his death. He will also visit the Lumbini archeological site on the beautiful day of Buddha Purnima, the day the founder of Buddhism, with nearly half a billion followers worldwide, was born, gained enlightenment, and discovered Nirvana.
Although Modi and Deuba will open an Indian-sponsored Buddhist center in Lumbini, the main purpose of the visit is to deepen the cultural ties between the two neighbors by focusing on their common history of Hinduism and Buddhism. The Prime Minister of India has already visited the Sita Devi Temple in Janakpur and the famous Vishnu Temple in Muktinath on his previous visit to Nepal.
Better road and air connections with Kathmandu
Apart from cultural connections, the two countries will push for better road and air connections and Kathmandu wants more air passage to India. The two closest neighbors are expected to further their education with the possibility that the Indian Technical University may have established a satellite campus in Kathmandu and Nepal to receive Indian higher education assistance in emerging and critical fields such as quantum computing, the people quoted earlier. example added.
With the depth of co-operation of the discovery force to speak in a vision statement released during Deuba’s visit to India last month, the two sides will be discussing water-based power interactions based on mutual benefit. India is committed to not only investing and building power units in Nepal but also building transmission lines to generate power to be sold across the border. This will not only lead to infrastructure development in Nepal but will also bring solid money to the Kathmandu fund.
People say that although Modi will help Nepal grow, India’s national security planners are determined that Kathmandu recognizes New Delhi’s concerns about the Chinese entry into the Himalayan Republic into the energy and road infrastructure sector. For example, Gautam Buddha International Airport in Bhairahawa near Lumbini has been upgraded by a Chinese company to become the second international airport in Nepal after Kathmandu. The airport, less than 10 kilometers from the Indian border at Sonauli, will also be opened by Deuba on May 16 after arriving in Lumbini to meet with the Indian Prime Minister.
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