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Kantipur Report - KATHMANDU, Dec 30 2007 - A parliamentary committee Sunday directed the government to take immediate diplomatic measures to make the Indian security personnel to vacate Susta area of Nepal that they have been encroaching.
The Agriculture and Cooperative Committee of the interim parliament has also asked the government to immediately activate the border security force or the Armed Police Force to guard Susta VDC.
According to a preliminary report released during a meeting of the parliamentary panel that recently visited the Susta area, India has encroached more than 14,000 hectors of land in seven out of nine wards of the VDC.
The members of the parliamentary committee even warned that Nepal would loose Susta area forever if the government does not take immediate diplomatic steps to address the problem.
Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula and Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives Chhabi Lal Biswokarma were also present at the meeting.
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