Overview
- Officials in Kathmandu and New Delhi are coordinating an official visit by Prime Minister Balendra Shah that is expected after Nepal's festival season but has no confirmed dates or final agenda.
- Shah is expected to hold delegation-level talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior Indian ministers with several memorandums of understanding under discussion.
- Both governments have exchanged lists of projects for possible inauguration or launch, including the Nepal Police Academy at Panauti, new integrated check posts at Bhairahawa and Dodhara Chandani, and major hydropower schemes involving India's NHPC.
- Kathmandu plans to press for large-scale reconstruction grants and concessional loans linked to the August floods, building on India’s delivery of over 130 tonnes of relief supplies and deployment of specialist teams.
- Talks are also set to cover sensitive sovereignty and transit issues such as the Kalapani-Lipulekh boundary question, additional air-entry routes for Nepal, trade barriers, and Shah’s proposal for a three-country climate cooperation mechanism.