Kathmandu, May 3 -- Ahead of the monsoon season, Nepal and India have taken a series of measures to resolve various outstanding operational issues concerning flood forecast and management, among others, in the Koshi and Ganadak river systems.

The decisions were taken during the 11th meeting of the Joint Committee on Koshi and Gandak Projects held over two days in Kathmandu, starting Friday.

"We decided to remove encroachment along a 35km stretch of the Western Koshi Main Canal on the Nepal side, mainly by shopkeepers," Mitra Baral, director general of the Department of Water Resources and Irrigation, who led the Nepali delegation, told the Post.

As per the Koshi agreement, the two sides discussed various operational and cross-border is...