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.^[1]

Life and career

Shrestha received a master's degree in geography with land surveying from the Tribhuvan University 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 Mahakali riverine segments" and their implications for the border management system of Nepal.^[2]

Shrestha worked in the Land Survey Department of Nepal for 27 years, in positions ranging from survey officer to director general, retiring in 1992.^[2] 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.^[3]

Works

Shrestha has authored fifteen books on border demarcation and management of Nepal,^[3] which include: 1. About Myself, 2023. 2. Collection of Historical Boundary Maps Related to Nepal, 2022. 3. Border Man of Nepal (2021) published from Generis Publishing- Moldova, Europe and Kathmandu, Nepal, 2021. 4. International Boundaries of Nepal (2019) published from Lambert Academic Publishing, Latvia, Europe; and South Asian Edition from Nirala Publications, New Delhi, India, 2021. 5. Collection of Historical Boundary maps Related to Nepal, (in Devanagari Script Version), 2020. 6. Counting of Border Pillars (in Devanagari Script) 2019. 7. Junge-Buddhe (in Devanagari Script), 2017. 8. Knowledge on Earthquake (in Devanagari Script), 2017. 9. Border War (in Devanagari Script), 2013. 10. Indo-Nepal Frontier Dams (in Devanagari Script), 2010. 11. Knowledge on Boundaries (in Devanagari Script), 2008. 12. Border Management of Nepal, 2003. 13. Border Management in the context of National Security (in Devanagari Script), 2002. 14. Boundary of Nepal (in Devanagari Script), 2000. 15. Cadastral Surveying for Public Usefulness (in Devanagari Script), 1982. • The book ‘International Boundaries of Nepal’ has been translated into eight languages (Russian, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Polish) by the same publisher- Lambert Academic Publishing- Latvia, Europe. Boundary of Nepal won the prestigious Madan Puraskar prize of Nepal in 2000.^[4]

           * 533 articles have been published in various daily, weekly newspapers. The latest ten
           articles have been mentioned below. The rest are mentioned in my book 'Junge Buddhe'
           Second Edition-2020 AD, page 364-66 and others.

• Given 641 electronic media interviews in television and radio FM. These are mentioned in my book 'Junge-Buddhe' Second Edition-2020, page 371 to 386 and some others. Ten of them have been mentioned below. Besides, Online Media have transmitted my interviews more than 50 items.