(15 Sep 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Various of Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda and delegation walking towards Mahatma Gandhi's memorial
2. Prachanda placing floral wreath at Gandhi's memorial
3. Close of Prachanda
4. Prachanda and delegation walking around memorial
5. Prachanda writing in visitor's book
6. Tilt up from hand to mid of Prachanda
7. Close of book with signature and comment
8. Prachanda being presented with stone bust of Gandhi
9. Mid of the stone bust, followed by pull out
10. Wide of Gandhi memorial
11. Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee greeting Prachanda, shaking hands with him and Nepalese Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav
12. Cutaway of photographer
13. Various of Prachanda and Mukherjee seated for meeting
14. Mid of Indian delegation
STORYLINE
Nepal's prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda met with top Indian leaders on Monday as he began the official leg of his five-day visit to India.
Prachanda arrived in New Delhi on Sunday and leads a delegation comprising ministers of the new government and business representatives.
This is his first visit to India since being elected Nepal's prime minister last month.
Prachanda paid homage to Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi by placing a wreath and throwing red rose petals at his black marble memorial.
The Gandhi memorial is located near the site of his cremation in 1948.
He also met with the Indian external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee.
Before his departure from Nepal on Sunday, Prachanda said the cross-border flooding that swamped a large swath of northern India will be among issues discussed when he meets Indian leaders in New Delhi.
More than 1.2 million (m) people were driven from their homes in India's impoverished Bihar state by flooding in mid August from the monsoon-swollen Kosi River, which flows from Nepal into India.
It burst its banks on the Nepalese side of the border and flowed into a channel it had abandoned a century earlier.
India, which borders Nepal on three sides and has a major influence on the tiny Himalayan country's political and economic affairs.
Landlocked Nepal gets all its petroleum products and most of its consumer goods from India. It also depends on India to transport its cargo.
Prachanda is due to hold talks with the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh later on Monday.

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