How will Nepal deal with a humanitarian crisis unfolding right across the border?

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No, we should not be indifferent to this extent.

A recent report in blastkhabar.com reveals that around 50 peoples from 10 'flood-hit' families have come all the way to Dharan from Tikamgadh of Madhya Pradesh, India. 

According to the Google Map, the distance between Tikamgadh and Dharan is 1,138.5 km via the National Highway 27 with the travel time of around 22 hours (21 hours 58 minutes to be precise).

The map suggests that one has to travel through the Indian territories of Kanpur, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Patna, Dharbhanga, Ghoghardiha (Madhuvani) and Biratnagar before entering Dharan of Nepal.  

It is quite possible that security apparatuses at the Indian cities did not bother to check where these people, rendered homeless due to flooding of their hometown, were going, understandably because it's not easy even for an emerging global economic giant like India, which has been reeling under floods like Nepal, to provide for 1,350,438,098 peoples. 

But what were our security appartuses doing all along? Almost nothing?

Above all, shall they let such people, of which there's no dearth right across the border, continue to stream into Nepal on humanitarian grounds, regardless of the fact that around 3,500 Nepali youths leave the homeland daily to land dirty, difficult and dangerous jobs abroad and many return home in coffins?

The report quotes a homeless fellow from Tikamgadh as saying that they came to Nepal because there was no dry land in Bihar. It quotes that there's no worry as there's no threat of flooding in the highlands. 

Does it mean we should let aliens enter our territories, slash and burn our forests and settle there for a) enabling political parties to use these people as vote banks? b) strengthening our much-touted people-to-people ties? c) 'further diversifying' our ethnic diversity and empowering the new entrants by providing them instant voter card, citizenship and reservation in government service?

What does the provincial government plan to do with them? Will it continue to welcome the poor, homeless people from across the border on humanitarian grounds or will it say a firm no?  

And what will the federal government do with them? Will it, first of all, bother to check with law enforcement as to how these people first managed to enter through the international border? 

Will it call the all-powerful New Delhi for some guidance on the matter or consult its man in Kathmandu, who has gained 'fame' for his clout here, for throwing lavish parties to power-hungry politicians, lawmakers and journalists every now and then (May I dare ask, with due regard to the wannabe vice-roy: Shall the Indian state not first provide for its poor peoples instead of our power-hungry, corrupt lot?)  

Or will it firmly say that it cannot bear the extra burden of what appears to be a fresh humanitarian crisis unfolding right across the porous border? If it says so, will the two-third majority government, weakened due to crisis after crisis after crisis, go? 

I leave this question to the powers that be.