India-Bangladesh The official nationality preference survey
in recently swapped 162 enclaves on India- Bangladesh border under the Land
Boundary Agreement (LBA) has ended. . The agreement came in to effect after
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh in June 2015. India had
swapped around 111 enclaves to Bangladesh, while the counterpart had had
swapped 51 enclaves. The survey was
conducted through the Enclaves Exchange Co-ordination Committee (EECC) of both
countries for ascertaining the nationality preference of over 50,000
enclave-residents.
On Bangladesh’s side it is found that 1,027 out of around
37,369 had opted for Indian nationality from the recently swapped 111 Indian
enclaves now located in Bangladesh. In case of India’s side, over 14,000
residents in 51 Bangladeshi enclaves transferred to India have opted to
relocate to Bangladesh. Background the nationality preference survey was
conducted by 75 joint-teams of EECC under the modalities of the LABAs per LBA,
all 162 enclaves will stand transferred to the two respective countries on
midnight of 31 July, 2015.
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