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Gandak

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Gandak

River of northern India, rising in the Himalayas in Nepal and joining the Ganges at Patna. Its waters are used to generate power which is shared with Nepal. A system of canals is used to irrigate almost 1.5 million ha/3.7 million acres of the Gangetic plain.


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The NCP almost unanimously criticized India as "expansionist" because of its growing influence in Nepal's economy and administration and also opposed the 1950 Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Nepal and India, the Kosi and Gandak rivers projects, and the military missions.
Viewed from the criticisms levelled by the Communist forces on Gandak and Koshi river projects in the past, it is no wonder that the Tanakpur barrage project (one of the projects signed between India and Nepal in 1991) has received by far the most serious attacks from the opposition.
 
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