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18 June, 2020
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Pashupatinath Temple and India - Nepal

Nepal-Bharat Maitri

Nepal-Bharat Maitri is a development partnership initiated by India as a high-impact community development scheme.

This initiative is another milestone in strengthening cultural ties and people-to-people contacts between the two countries.
In 2018, Nepal-Bharat Maitri - Pashupati Dharmashala was inaugurated in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Recently, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed under Nepal-Bharat Maitri: Development Partnership, for the construction of a sanitation facility at the Pashupatinath Temple, Kathmandu.
The facility will be implemented by Kathmandu Metropolitan City and India has pledged to extend financial assistance amounting to Rs. 2.33 crore.
This comes amid a raging border row between the two countries.

Pashupatinath Temple

It is dedicated to Lord Shiva, Pashupatinath is one of the most important religious sites in Asia for devotees of Shiva.
It is the largest temple complex in Nepal and stretches on both sides of the Bagmati River.
Temples dedicated to several other Hindu and Buddhist deities surround the temple of Pashupatinath.
Only Hindus are allowed through the gates of the main temple.
It was conferred the status of a World Heritage Site in 1979 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

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