Joint survey of disputed Sylhet-Meghalaya borders begins Dec 7
Joint survey of the disputed borders along Sylhet-Meghalaya will begin 7 December.
Land records officials of Bangladesh and India set the programme at a joint preparatory meeting on Wednesday at Tamabil check post.
The decision came with a view to resolving the nagging disputes over the borders like Dibir haor, Sripur, Tamabil, Sonarhat, Bichnakandi, Protappur and Lalakhal in Sylhet with the Indian state of Meghalaya.
Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet Abu Syed Mohammad Hashim told this correspondent that the joint survey would initially cover 13 points on the border from Lobhachhara in Kanaighat upazila to Lalakhal and Dibir haor in Jaintapur upazila and Sonarhat in Kanaighat upazila. It will be held in presence of land officials and BDR, he added.
Sources said, border guards of both the countries locked in gun battles time and again on those frontiers as the Indian border guards and tribesmen attempted to forcibly occupy water bodies and farmlands there in the recent months.
Over a hundred people of the neighbouring areas sustained injuries while many had to keep away from there homesteads for days and weeks even for months this year.
Even the BSF picked up a BDR man to the Indian territory and returned him after long hours, sources said.
The BDR chief and the BSF Inspector General visited the borders to calm the situation and agreed for a joint survey. The matter was also discussed at the regional border conferences and in the joint border working group meeting in Delhi and in Dhaka.
Deputy Director of Land Records Nilmoni Sinha led the Bangladesh side while Joint Director of Meghalaya and Land Survey Commission TS Sangma and Deputy Director Marwin took part in the preparatory meeting.
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