Posted by Anup Baral May 13th, 2016If it is Nepal's growing proximity with China that is making PM K P Sharma Oli act in a cavalier fashion, some of the resultant damage for India could be self-inflicted. While India denies that it was responsible for the blockade which threatened to cripple Nepal's economy, the fact is that the recent strain in India-Nepal relations has coincided with China surpassing India in the list of top aid donors to Nepal. The latest report by the Nepal government on official development assistance (ODA) shows that in FY 2014-2015, India's ODA disbursement to Nepal plummeted by over 50 per cent in the first year of the NDA government, allowing Beijing to overtake India in the list of top assistance providers.