Free and virtually unchecked movement across the India-Nepal border may soon become history, as governments in both sides have decided to strictly regulate the movement of people in the border areas, reports said.

The regulations will be enforced from Nov 1, with the aim of curbing infiltration of terrorists in both the countries.

A high-level meeting of officials from the two sides in New Delhi earlier this week took the decision to this effect.

Reports quoted State Principal Home Secretary Alok Sinha as saying that, “The meeting was organised to thrash out a strategy to curb infiltration by undesirable elements.”

He said the idea behind the move was not to harass or cause inconvenience to Nepalese citizens.

After the enforcement of the decision people crossing the border on either side will now have to produce some kind of identification. Both Indian and Nepalese governments will issue passes for those, whose movement across the border was quite frequent.