With the aim of implementing the Land Boundary Agreement, officials of Joint Border Working Group of India and Bangladesh will hold camps in enclaves located in both the countries from July 6 to 16. Through this exercise, the views of enclave dwellers on the nationality they wish to hold will be taken.
The decision was taken on Thursday at a meeting in which officials from four bordering districts — Kurigram, Lalmonirhaat, Nilphamari and Panchagarh — of Bangladesh and Cooch Behar of West Bengal participated. At the meeting held at Changrabandha border outpost, modalities of the joint visit to Indian and Bangladeshi enclaves were discussed in detail. “We will need more follow up meetings. Our target is to ensure logistics and security arrangement for the exercise,” District Collector of Kurigram ABM Azad said. District magistrate of Cooch Behar P. Ulagnathan said all exercise on either side of the border will be held in co-ordination with each other.
Awareness among the enclave dwellers about the upcoming exercise would be created through leaflets, poster and public announcements.
In the letter exchanged between the foreign secretaries of both the governments during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Dhaka, it was clearly mentioned that the “entry, stay and secure functioning of the representatives of the joint visit, and setting up of camps shall be facilitated by both the governments.”
