Kathmandu, 2 March: India has taken initiatives to open a ‘Mustang Buddhist College’ with the investment of the Indian government in an area where the Nepal Government has prohibited even the movement of foreigners. Mustang’s flanks are considered sensitive because the Tibetan Khampas rebelled against the Chinese government four decades ago. Now, the Indian Embassy has sought permission from the Government of Nepal to select that area and undertake a project.
India has stepped forward to invest in a project originally intended for Tibetan refugees. India is providing a grant assistance of Rs 733 million to construct a Buddhist college in Falyak region. The Indian Embassy in Kathmandu has said that a proposal has been received from Bahrgaon Muktikshetra Rural Municipality for the construction of a college and Nepal has been asked for permission to build it with Indian grants, reports Kantipur Daily.
A senior official of the Government says that undertaking a projects with foreign assistance and gathering foreign students in a forbidden and sensitive area like Upper Mustang will increase complexity in Nepal’s geopolitics. “The place where the college is said to be opened is sensitive, there is no need for such a college of that level. If so, why foreign aid? Why should foreign students take that field? We have alerted the political leaders and related agencies about this. If this is not stopped soon, there may be more trouble in geopolitics.”
People’s News Monitoring Service
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