"Sports Diplomacy, Tech, Start-Ups": Envoy On How India Is Helping Nepal

The country has transformed, both physically and demographically, underscored Ambassador to Nepal Naveen Srivastava speaking at NDTV World's 'Anviksha' India-Nepal Dialogue on Thursday, connecting the change to New Delhi's "neighbourhood first" policy.The policy prioritises improving physical, digital, and people-to-people connectivity within the region, while also boosting trade and commerce."For the last several years, we have been doing work in that direction. Now, Nepal has transformed both in terms of physical transformation, better infrastructure, better roads, better connectivity, hydropower, but also demographically, that's seen a large transformation," the envoy told NDTV.The envoy elaborated that there's a great exchange of people and ideas between the two South Asian countries."Several new initiatives have been taken.