India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is arriving in Nepal on January 4 to take part in the meeting of the Nepal-India joint commission.

The Foreign Ministry said that a team of Jaishankar will arrive in Kathmandu by a special plane of the Indian Air Force.

Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra and Anurag Srivastava, head of the Northern Division at the Ministry of External Affairs among others are in the team.

A meeting of the Nepal-India joint commission will be held on January 4.

Matters of mutual cooperation and bilateral relations will be discussed in the meeting, it has been said.

The Foreign Ministry said that an agreement will also be signed on the small development project of the Indian Embassy in the meeting.

Under this project, the Indian Embassy can directly invest up to Rs 200 million in Nepal.

A Cabinet meeting held recently had decided to allow the Indian Embassy to invest up to Rs 200 million in Nepal.

The power trade agreement will also be signed in the meeting.

During Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s India visit, India had signed an agreement to purchase 10, 000 megawatt of electricity in 10 years.

While staying in Nepal, the Jaishankar’a team will call on President Ram Chandra Paudel and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

The Indian leaders are also scheduled to meet Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba and CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli among others.

They will return to India on January 5.