Buddhi Narayan Shrestha is a Nepalese geographer specialising on the border issues of Nepal. He served as the director general of the Survey Department of Nepal, and is currently the managing director of Bhumichitra Mapping Company. His book titled ''Boundary of Nepal'' has won the Madan Puraskar prize.

Life and career

Shrestha received a Masters Degree in Geography with Land Surveying from the

Tribhuvan University Tribhuvan University (TU; ne, त्रिभुवन विश्वविद्यालय) is a public university located in Kirtipur, Kathmandu. Established in 1959, TU is the oldest university in Nepal. In terms of enrollment, it is ...

in 1964. After receiving training in land surveying at the West Bengal Survey Institute in Calcutta, he carried out Ph. D. research at the Tribhuvan University. His research area was dealing with border issues of Nepal with "special reference to the demarcation of Mechi and

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riverine segments" and their implications for the border management system of Nepal.Buddhi Narayan Shrestha
About Myself
border-nepal.com, retrieved 21 May 2020. Shrestha worked in the Land Survey Department of Nepal for 27 years, in positions ranging from survey officer to director general, retiring in 1992. Afterwards, he became a consultant and later the managing director for the Bhumichitra Mapping Company. Shrestha served on the Nepal–India and Nepal–China Joint boundary Committees. He serves on the Board of Nepal's Institute of Foreign Affairs, as a nominee of the Nepal Government. He is the President of Nepal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Works

Shrestha has authored seven books on border demarcation and management of Nepal, which include: * ''Boundary of Nepal'' (in

Nepali Nepali or Nepalese may refer to : Concerning Nepal * Anything of, from, or related to Nepal * Nepali people, citizens of Nepal * Nepali language, an Indo-Aryan language found in Nepal, the current official national language and a language spoken ...

), 2000. * ''Border Management of Nepal'', Bhumichitra Co. P. Ltd, 2003. .Border Management of Nepal
Nepali Times, 7 August 2003. * ''Border War/Sima Sangram,'' Ratna Sagar Prakashan, 2013.''Shak Bahadur Budhathoki, Ramita Mahajan
Bibliography of Nepali Scholarship on India
Martin Chautari, 15 March 2015.'' ''Boundary of Nepal'' won the prestigious Madan Puraskar prize of Nepal in 2000.

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