Kathmandu June 16 : The Ministry of Home Affairs has sent a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take diplomatic initiative to stop the atrocities being committed by India in the Mahakali River riparian zone.

The Home Ministry has sent a letter to the foreign ministry on Tuesday to take initiative through diplomatic means to stop such activities in the border area after a rock fell during the Dharchula-Lipulek road expansion under construction by encroaching Nepali land Kalapani-Lipulek area and destroying the road connecting Darchula’s Byas Gaonpalika-2, Dumling and Kalju.

The letter said that the construction work of 87 km road from Kothedhar in Darchula to Tinker is about to start and in this process, the blast could affect both the sides of the river bank.

The government has given the responsibility of digging the Darchula-Tinker road to the Nepal Army. It is mentioned that the letter sent by the District Administration Office Darchula to his Indian counterpart Pithoragarh District Magistrate regarding the collapse of Kalju Road has not been answered. On the same day, a 150-meter-long Goreto road (only people walking track) towards Mahakaliwari Nepal was destroyed when the Indian side detonated a bomb to expand the road in the Garbhadhar-Shantivan area under Pithoragarh Pangla Gramin Panchayat.

Home Minister Khagraj Adhikari had told reporters on Tuesday that 150 meters of road in Kalju area had collapsed due to Indians and about 200 meters of Nepali land had fallen to India due to the Mahakali floods. “Our land must be brought back. The government is committed to this,” he said. The letter sent by the Home Ministry to foreign ministry does not mention the issue of Nepali territory falling to India.

The home ministry had sent a letter to the foreign ministry on June 13 with the decision of the District Security Committee Darchula to draw India’s diplomatic attention to the issue of protection of Sitapul. However, no initiative has been taken to control the activities of Indian coercion from foreign ministry. The home ministry sent the second letter foreign ministry on Tuesday.