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Kathmandu- Indian media have covered widely that Nepal's central bank has issued new Rs 100 currency notes featuring a revised map that includes the Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura territories.
The new note from the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) bears the signature of previous Governor Maha Prasad Adhikari. The date of issuance of the bank note is 2024.
In May 2020, the K P Sharma Oli-led government unveiled a new political map, showing Lipulek, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura areas as Nepal's territory. Later, it was endorsed by the Parliament.
The move reignites a years-long boundary dispute, with Nepal making a similar move in May 2020 when the KP Sharma Oli-led government unveiled a new political map, showing Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura areas as Nepal's territory, livemint.com – an Indian news portal- reported.
India maintains that Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura belong to it, an Indian TV channel, NDTV, reported.
Talking about the updated version of the map, an NRB spokesperson on Thursday said that the map was already in the old Rs 100 bank note, and it has been revised as per the government's decision.
Among various denominations of bank notes, such as Rs 10, Rs 50, Rs 500, and Rs 1,000, only the Rs 100 currency note bears Nepal's map, he clarified.
Nepal's new Rs 100 bank note features Mt Everest on its left side, while a watermark of Nepal's national flower, Rhododendron, is on the right.
A faint green colour map of Nepal is in the background at the centre of the bank note. The Ashoka Pillar is printed near the map with the text "Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha." On the back side of the currency, there is a picture of a horned rhino. The bank note also has a security thread and an embossed black dot, which helps blind people to recognise it.
Nepal shares a border of over 1850 km with five Indian states - Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
