Thousand of trucks carry different types of goods from Indian markets to Nepal have been compelled to queue up at Sunauli. The trucks are stranded in India after the Indian Customs Office did not carry out border checking of the good-loaded trucks on time.
Chief at Belahiya-based Bhairahawa Customs Office, Lavanya Dhakal, said that the trucks have been stranded in India after the employees at Indian Customs Office starting taking hours for a single vehicle for checking in the name of security.
Indian security personnel have not allowed the vehicles carrying daily essentials entering to Nepal via Belahiya of Rupandehi.
Chief Dhakal said the Seema Sirakshya Bal (SSB), India, has returned back the vehicles that had reached Belhiya check point carrying petroleum products and food stuffs and added that a total of 94 tankers belonging to Nepal Oil Corporation carrying cooking gas and petroleum products from Baitalpur of India are stranded after they stopped from entering to Nepal.
Some 20 vehicles have only entered to Nepal so far via Sunauli check point after the blockade at the check points, which used to see some 400 vehicles pass by every day.
Over 5,000 vehicles are queued up covering some 30 kilometers south of India from Sunauli. RSS
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