The cabinet on Monday endorsed a proposal for ratification of a protocol to the agreement between the governments of Bangladesh and India for demarcation of the international land boundary.
The home ministry placed the proposal in the weekly cabinet meeting chaired by the prime minister Sheikh Hasina at the secretariat.
The protocol was signed by two countries in 2011 for implementation of the Mujib-Indira Land Boundary Agreement, 1974.
‘Bangladesh ratified the LBA on November 28, 1974 but India ratified the documents recently,’ cabinet secretary Muhammad Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told reporters.
A number of 162 enclaves will be exchanged under the LBA between the two countries, he said.
‘And other disputes over the bordering lands will also be resolved’, he added.
Bangladesh and India are nearly ready to exchange 162 enclaves in which over 51,000 people are living without any nationality. Indian parliament recently passed a bill for ratification of the much-awaited land boundary agreement signed back in 1974.
Indian Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament, on May 7 unanimously passed a bill seeking amendment to the constitution to implement the historic Land Boundary Agreement to facilitate the exchange of 162 enclaves, transfer of adversely possessed areas and demarcation of 6.5km of unmarked border lands between the two neighbours.
Under the agreement, India will hand over 111 enclaves measuring 17,160 acres of land with a population of 37,369 to Bangladesh and take over 51 enclaves covering of 7,110 acres with a population of nearly 14,090, according to the first-ever joint headcount conducted in July 2011.
A total of 51 Bangladesh enclaves – 18 in Kurigram and 33 in Lalmonirhat – are located in Cooch Behar district of Paschimbangla and of the 111 Indian enclaves, 12 are situated in Kurigram, 59 in Lalmonirhat, four in Nilphamari and 36 in Panchagarh of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh and India will formally exchange documents of the enclave-land on either side of the border and take rehabilitation programmes for the people after the ratification process is completed, said officials concerned.
The home ministry placed the proposal in the weekly cabinet meeting chaired by the prime minister Sheikh Hasina at the secretariat.
The protocol was signed by two countries in 2011 for implementation of the Mujib-Indira Land Boundary Agreement, 1974.
‘Bangladesh ratified the LBA on November 28, 1974 but India ratified the documents recently,’ cabinet secretary Muhammad Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told reporters.
A number of 162 enclaves will be exchanged under the LBA between the two countries, he said.
‘And other disputes over the bordering lands will also be resolved’, he added.
Bangladesh and India are nearly ready to exchange 162 enclaves in which over 51,000 people are living without any nationality. Indian parliament recently passed a bill for ratification of the much-awaited land boundary agreement signed back in 1974.
Indian Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament, on May 7 unanimously passed a bill seeking amendment to the constitution to implement the historic Land Boundary Agreement to facilitate the exchange of 162 enclaves, transfer of adversely possessed areas and demarcation of 6.5km of unmarked border lands between the two neighbours.
Under the agreement, India will hand over 111 enclaves measuring 17,160 acres of land with a population of 37,369 to Bangladesh and take over 51 enclaves covering of 7,110 acres with a population of nearly 14,090, according to the first-ever joint headcount conducted in July 2011.
A total of 51 Bangladesh enclaves – 18 in Kurigram and 33 in Lalmonirhat – are located in Cooch Behar district of Paschimbangla and of the 111 Indian enclaves, 12 are situated in Kurigram, 59 in Lalmonirhat, four in Nilphamari and 36 in Panchagarh of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh and India will formally exchange documents of the enclave-land on either side of the border and take rehabilitation programmes for the people after the ratification process is completed, said officials concerned.
Source: New Age