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dated October 22, 1957: Gandak Project

Preliminary talks between India and Nepal on an agreement for the construction of a half mile long dam across the river Gandak under the Rs 500 million Gandak irrigation project of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh concluded in Kathmandu on October 18, with “satisfactory results”. The Gandak project is India’s biggest irrigation undertaking to be financed and executed entirely by India, and necessitates the construction of the barrage across the river whose midstream is regarded as the exact frontier line between India and Nepal.

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