Nepal rejects Indias offer to jointly re-measure Mt Everest

Nepal rejects Indias offer to jointly re-measure Mt Everest

Nepal has rejected Indias offer to jointly re-measure the height of the worlds highest peak Mount Everest following the massive earthquake in 2015 and will carry out the exercise on its own, the top official of the Himalayan nations survey department has said.

Image for representation only Nepal will, however, seek help from India and China for getting crucial data for the exercise, Nepals Survey Departments Director General Ganesh Bhatta told PTI.

Sources in New Delhi indicated that China could be behind Nepal refusing Indias proposal to jointly re-measure Mount Everest as the peak is on the Sino-Nepal border.

According to a statement by the Department of Science and Technology which comes under Indias Ministry of Science and Technology, after the 2015 "Gorkha earthquake" that jolted Nepal, various doubts were raised by the scientific community over the height of the peak.

The 7.

8 magnitude quake in April 2015 had devastated the Himalayan nation, killing more than 8,000 people and displacing lakhs of others.

The Survey of India, a 250-year-old institute under the DST, proposed re-measuring Mt Everest as an Indo-Nepal Joint Scientific Exercise with Nepals survey department.

"They have not responded to our proposal.

Now they are saying that they are not involving either India or China.