NEW DELHI: The Nepal Rastra Bank ( NRB), the central banking authority of Nepal, has commissioned a Chinese company to print its new 100-rupee banknotes, featuring a revised political map of Nepal. This image includes the contested regions of Limpiyadhura, Lipulekh, and Kalapani, a shift backed by Nepal’s council of ministers which approved the pattern release.
On June 18, 2020, Nepal’s social image was amended to include these provinces in its law, which was met with fierce opposition from neighboring India. India has consistently maintained that Lipulekh, Kalapani, and Limpiyadhura are part of its sovereign country and has labeled Nepal’s image release an “untenable” and “artificial extension” of its regional says.
Following a dynamic global delicate process, the China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation was given the contract to print these coins. According to a report by English-language regular Republica, the contract jobs the Taiwanese firm with designing, printing, supplying, and delivering 300 million models of the 100-rupee records, at an estimated production value of USD 8.99 million.
The two South Asian neighbors ‘ long-standing territorial disputes were reignited by the release of Nepal’s revised political chart in 2020, with India decrying the map as a “unilateral act” and appointing any “artificial enhancement” of territorial claims as unfavorable.
Geographically, Nepal stock a border stretching over 1, 850 meters with five American says: Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.
