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BDR reclaims 400 acres of land from India
United News of Bangladesh . Naogaon
The Bangladesh Rifles has reclaimed 400 acres of land, including some portion of the river Punarbhaba, from the possession of India long 59 years after the 1947 partition of the subcontinent.
BDR sources said the land was retaken on the basis of border demarcation survey conducted by the survey departments of the two countries that concluded last month.
As per decision between the two neighboring countries, Shaheen Azad and Biswanath on behalf of Bangladesh and India respectively conducted the survey from January 5 to February 16,2006 on the disputed land stretching from No- 240 main pillar to No-244 border pillar.
‘The survey suggests that India had been occupying 400 acres of land of Bangladesh,’ a BDR official said.
After the survey, the commander of BDR Adatola BOP, Nayeb Subedar Abdul Quddus, requested the BSF commander Suresh Chandra Jadev of Laxminarayanpur for providing necessary cooperation to give back the land to Bangladesh.
‘As the BSF authority had not responded till March 3, BDR members entered the land and started patrolling the area. At one stage, BSF personnel left the occupied land,’ the official said.
The recovered land comprises Mohadevpur mouja in Patari union under Sapahar upazila. After a joint survey conducted by the two countries in 1957-58, the land was ceded to the territory of the then Pakistan.
‘After the reclamation, BDR personnel have been put on high alert with support of the people of the frontier villages.’
Farmers of Bamongola thana in Maldah district and Topon thana of Balurghat district of India had been cultivating the land.
The commander of 28 Rifles Battalion, Lieutenant Col Jahid Hasan told the news agency the recovered land is now ‘khas’ property of the government.
United News of Bangladesh . Naogaon
The Bangladesh Rifles has reclaimed 400 acres of land, including some portion of the river Punarbhaba, from the possession of India long 59 years after the 1947 partition of the subcontinent.
BDR sources said the land was retaken on the basis of border demarcation survey conducted by the survey departments of the two countries that concluded last month.
As per decision between the two neighboring countries, Shaheen Azad and Biswanath on behalf of Bangladesh and India respectively conducted the survey from January 5 to February 16,2006 on the disputed land stretching from No- 240 main pillar to No-244 border pillar.
‘The survey suggests that India had been occupying 400 acres of land of Bangladesh,’ a BDR official said.
After the survey, the commander of BDR Adatola BOP, Nayeb Subedar Abdul Quddus, requested the BSF commander Suresh Chandra Jadev of Laxminarayanpur for providing necessary cooperation to give back the land to Bangladesh.
‘As the BSF authority had not responded till March 3, BDR members entered the land and started patrolling the area. At one stage, BSF personnel left the occupied land,’ the official said.
The recovered land comprises Mohadevpur mouja in Patari union under Sapahar upazila. After a joint survey conducted by the two countries in 1957-58, the land was ceded to the territory of the then Pakistan.
‘After the reclamation, BDR personnel have been put on high alert with support of the people of the frontier villages.’
Farmers of Bamongola thana in Maldah district and Topon thana of Balurghat district of India had been cultivating the land.
The commander of 28 Rifles Battalion, Lieutenant Col Jahid Hasan told the news agency the recovered land is now ‘khas’ property of the government.
