IANS
NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 19
Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli arrived here on Friday on a six-day visit to India, his first foreign visit after assuming office in October last year.
He was received at the airport by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
The visit of Oli, who is accompanied by his wife Radhika Sakya, is the first bilateral visit by a prime minister from the Himalayan nation since 2011 when then premier Baburam Bhattarai visited India.
In 2014, then prime minister Sushil Koirala visited India for the swearing-in ceremony of the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government.
In August 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi went on a bilateral visit to Nepal which was the first by an Indian PM r in 17 years.
Modi again went in November 2014 to attend the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) summit in Kathmandu.
Oli and his wife will stay as state guests at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
On Saturday, Sushma Swaraj will call on Oli after which the visiting dignitary will meet Prime Minister Modi. This will be followed by delegation-level talks and signing of various agreements.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will then call on the Nepalese Prime Minister.
Oli will also call on Vice President Hamid Ansari and President Pranab Mukherjee later in the day. On Sunday, he will leave for Dehradun where he will visit the Tehri hydel power project.
On Monday, Minister of State for Power Piyush Goyal will call on Oli after which the visiting dignitary will address the Indian Council for World Affairs. In the evening, Oli will attend a business meeting. On Tuesday, he will leave for Bhuj in Gujarat to take stock of the earthquake reconstruction work there.
Later in the day, he will leave for Mumbai where he will meet Maharashtra Governor C. Vidyasagar Rao.
Oli will depart from India on Wednesday.
