Home minister Ram Bahadur Thapa said that while the Indian side had security posts every kilometre, the distance between two nearest posts on the Nepali side is 25 kilometres.
Press Trust of India, Kathmandu
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Nepal will deploy drones to patrol its border with India, home minister Ram Bahadur Thapa said on Tuesday.
Nepal will deploy drones to patrol its border with India, home minister Ram Bahadur Thapa said on Tuesday.
Announcing a 82-point programme of the home ministry, Thapa, also a senior Maoist leader, told the media that тАЬthe home ministry is introducing new guidelines on using drones, and it was now essential to use drones at Nepal-India border for patrolling.тАЭ
Thapa said that on the Indian side, there are security posts every kilometre, whereas the distance between two nearest posts on the Nepali side is 25 kilometres.
┬атАЬWe do not have sufficient human resources to address this problem. Therefore, we will now use drones,тАЭ Thapa was quoted as saying by onlinekhabar, a Nepalese news portal.
Nepal and India share more than 17,000-km open border.
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