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Source<\/strong>-This post on India-Nepal relations has been created based on the article \u201cAmid Nepal\u2019s continuing political turmoil, confidence vote win for PM Prachanda, the task for India<\/strong>\u201d published in \u201cThe Indian Express<\/strong>\u201d on 18 March 2024.<\/p>\n UPSC Syllabus<\/strong>–GS Paper-2-International relations<\/strong>– India and its Neighborhood- Relations.<\/p>\n News<\/strong>– Nepal\u2019s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda has recently won a vote of confidence in the 275-member lower house of Parliament recently. India-Nepal relations UPSC.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 1) India is Nepal\u2019s largest trade partner, with bilateral trade crossing $7 billion in FY 2019-20. Further, India provides transit for almost all of Nepal\u2019s trade with third country. 1) Humanitarian aid <\/strong>– During the Covid-19 pandemic, India aided more than $7 million to Nepal. This included the supply of more than 23 tones of medicines and medical equipment, more than 9.5 million doses of vaccines, and a medical oxygen plant.<\/p>\n 2) People to people exchange<\/strong>-About 8 million Nepalese citizens live and work in India, and some 6 lakh Indians live in Nepal. Indians are about 30% of foreign tourists in Nepal. The bilateral remittance flow is estimated at $3 billion from Nepal to India, and $1 billion in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n A detailed article on India-Nepal Relationship can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 1) Rise of Anti-India stance<\/strong>– The new partner in the government is K P Sharma Oli\u2019s Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) which is known to have anti-India sentiments. For ex- During infamous trade blockade, Oli the then Prime Minister, portrayed India as the neighborhood bully in his country.<\/p>\n 2) Pro China tilt<\/strong>-China has been pouring aid and investment in infrastructure to take Kathmandu away from New Delhi. Nepalese imports from China have almost tripled from last few years. With Oli, who has clear China leanings<\/strong>, back in government in Nepal, India will have to be more vigilant.<\/p>\n India must keep people of Nepal at its Centre. It must ensure that China or its proxies do not get an opportunity to increase suspicion against India. More than an \u201celder brother\u201d, India should try to be an equal partner for Nepal.<\/p>\n Question for practice<\/strong><\/p>\n What will be the impact of new political change in Nepal on India\u2019s interest?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source-This post on India-Nepal relations has been created based on the article \u201cAmid Nepal\u2019s continuing political turmoil, confidence vote win for PM Prachanda, the task for India\u201d published in \u201cThe Indian Express\u201d on 18 March 2024. UPSC Syllabus–GS Paper-2-International relations– India and its Neighborhood- Relations. News– Nepal\u2019s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda has recently… Continue reading India-Nepal relations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":287577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,1235],"tags":[212,10500,239],"class_list":["post-287430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-international-relations","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","tag-international-relations","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/India-Nepal-relations-UPSC.webp?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the status of India-Nepal trade relations?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n2) Indian exports to Nepal have grown more than eight times over the past decade, while exports from Nepal have almost doubled.<\/p>\nWhat are areas of cooperation between India and Nepal?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
What is the impact of political instability in Nepal on India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n