By Our Reporter Even more than six weeks after the release of new Indian political map placing the Kalapani area in India, no progress from the government side has been made to take up the issue with New Delhi by sending a messenger of the government to take the issue to a logical conclusion. Although the government time and again said that it would hold talks on both the political and diplomatic levels on the issue, nothing such has happened. Slowly, the uproar seen in Nepal immediately after the release of the controversial map has calmed down. However, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had expressed his concerns about the issue. India had issued the map on November 2. The serious issue of border dispute remained in shadow for over a week after Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali and foreign secretary went to Russia and Serbia leaving the issue unattended. PM Oli was said to become unhappy when the concerned Ministry paid no attention to the issue. The PM’s secretariat said the PM was trying to know to which level the Foreign Ministry had worked on the issue. Foreign Minister Gyawali said that he was working to resolve the issue through diplomatic channel after he returned to Nepal from Russia. However, the Foreign Ministry has been accused of doing nothing seriously on the issue. In five weeks, Nepali Ambassador to India Nilamber Acharya met with Indian Foreign Secretary Vijaya Gokhle and communicated Nepal’s request for talks and Nepal dispatched a diplomatic note to India, Nepal had offered to hold Foreign Secretary-level talks in Kathmandu. But no date has been fixed yet. It was also reported that PM Oil was preparing to send leader Madhav Kumar Nepal to India to talk on the issue. But that too has not happened. In these last four weeks, several leaders of the ruling Nepal Communist Party, including Prime Minister Oli, opened up their respective contacts and communications with various sources in India to understand the mood in New Delhi, including the Indian Prime Minister’s Office, for the talks, said ruling party leaders. Though the Indian side has not refused talks at any level, it has insisted that dialogue should first be held at the Foreign Secretary-level. Hence, leader Nepal’s visit to New Delhi is unlikely anytime soon.