Issue raised strongly with WHO: MEA on wrong depiction of Indian map

V Muraleedharan. Pic/Official Twitter account

V Muraleedharan, Mos Ministry of External Affairs has said that India has strongly raised the issue with World Health Organization's (WHO) on wrong depiction of India's map on their website.

"Issue of wrong depiction of the map of India on WHO website raised strongly with WHO. In response, WHO informed Permanent Mission of India in Geneva that they've put a disclaimer on the portal," said Muraleedharan in a written reply to an unstarred question in Rajya Sabha.

The question was asked by Union Civil Aviation minister and BJP MP Jyotiraditya Scindia.

Earlier, Trinamool Congress MP Dr Santanu Sen in his letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to take up steps to correct the mistake. Sharing the pictures of the wrong map of India on the WHO dashboard, Sen tweeted, "WHO COVID https://19.int site shows map of India with a separate colour for Jammu & Kashmir & inside that there is another small portion of a separate colour. If they are clicked, Covid datas of Pakistan & China are coming."

Sen also questioned the central government for not noticing the "absolutely horrible" lapse. "Why ministry of home affairs, external affairs and the ministry of health did not notice it and take any initiative to correct this step," the MP wrote in his letter to the prime minister. Sen also said that Arunachal Pradesh was "demarcated separately" from the map of India.

"I tried to locate the map once again and again I noticed Arunachal Pradesh was also demarcated separately," Sen added in his letter.

With inputs from ANI