By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Oct. 10: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yogesh Bhattarai and Indian Ambassador to Nepal Binaya Mohan Kwatra have held discussion about concluding the agreement to allow aircraft enter Nepal through Bhairahawa route.
The two governments are conducting correspondence regarding opening the air route that would be needed when the Gautam Buddha International Airport in Bhairahawa comes into operation from next year.
In a meeting held at the Tourism Ministry at Singha Durbar on Friday, the minister and envoy also discussed about the permission to fly into Nepal from Nepalgunj and Mahendranagar sky.
Kwatra had called on the minister on Friday afternoon at his office.
They talked about resuming the air services to various Indian cities from Kathmandu which was halted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, said the ministry.
Minister Bhattarai and Ambassador Kwatra also discussed about developing the Pashupati, Lumbini and Janakpur as special religious and cultural destinations. Both of them expressed their commitment to implement the concept of Ramayana Circuit at the earliest. The circuit connects Janakpur in Nepal and Ayodhya in India and other various religious-cultural heritages on the way.
Kwatra said that India was ready to support Nepal in the fight against the COVID-19, and develop religious and cultural centres in the country.