The official survey underway since 6th July in 162 enclaves on India- Bangladesh border for ascertaining the nationality preference of over 50,000 enclave-residents under the Land Boundary Agreement has ended yesterday evening. Golam Mustafa, General Secretary of Bangladesh unit of the Enclaves Exchange Co-ordination Committee (EECC) said 1,027 out of around 37,369 had opted for Indian nationality in the 111 Indian enclaves located in Bangladesh. Diptiman Sengupta, General Secretary of the Indian unit of Enclaves Co-ordination Committee said none of the over 14,000 residents in 51 Bangladeshi enclaves in India has opted to relocate to Bangladesh. <br/><br/>Additional Home Secretary of Bangladesh, Abul Hena Muneen said the official figures of the survey will be released after the necessary paper work is completed. 75 joint-teams have been conducting the nationality preference survey under the modalities of the Land Boundary Agreement effected during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Bangladesh last month. All 162 enclaves will stand transferred to the two respective countries on midnight of 31st July, 2015.<br/><br/>There are 111 Indian enclaves located in Bangladesh in 4 districts of Kurigram, Panchagarh, Lalmonirhat and Nilphamari. In general, enclave dwellers want to remain in their present locations because they feel at home where they have been living for decades. <br/><br/>Those one thousand and odd people in Indian enclaves in Bangladesh who have opted to relocate are doing so due to different reasons. Some say they are relocating due to expected better economic prospects, some landless people who also do not have a proper house, feel the Indian authorities may provide them some lumpsum monetary benefits or incentive. A few are moving due to marriage relations on mainland India, while some are also running away from the expected consequences of their earlier criminal activities like murders

The official survey underway since 6th July in 162 enclaves on India- Bangladesh border for ascertaining the nationality preference of over 50,000 enclave-residents under the Land Boundary Agreement has ended yesterday evening. Golam Mustafa, General Secretary of Bangladesh unit of the Enclaves Exchange Co-ordination Committee (EECC) said 1,027 out of around 37,369 had opted for Indian nationality in the 111 Indian enclaves located in Bangladesh. Diptiman Sengupta, General Secretary of the Indian unit of Enclaves Co-ordination Committee said none of the over 14,000 residents in 51 Bangladeshi enclaves in India has opted to relocate to Bangladesh. <br/><br/>Additional Home Secretary of Bangladesh, Abul Hena Muneen said the official figures of the survey will be released after the necessary paper work is completed. 75 joint-teams have been conducting the nationality preference survey under the modalities of the Land Boundary Agreement effected during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Bangladesh last month. All 162 enclaves will stand transferred to the two respective countries on midnight of 31st July, 2015.

The official survey underway since 6th July in 111 Indian enclaves in Bangladesh for ascertaining the nationality preference of over 37,369 residents on the India-Bangladesh border ended yesterday evening. <br/><br/>Golam Mustafa, General Secretary of Bangladesh unit of the Enclaves Exchange Co-ordination Committee (EECC) said 1,027 people had opted for Indian nationality. Diptiman Sengupta, General Secretary of the Indian unit of Enclaves Co-ordination Committee said none of the over 14,000 residents in 51 Bangladeshi enclaves in India, opted to relocate to Bangladesh. <br/><br/>Additional Home Secretary of Bangladesh, Abul Hena Muneen said the official figures will be released after the necessary paper work is completed. 75 joint-teams have been conducting the nationality preference survey under the modalities of the Land Boundary Agreement effected during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Bangladesh last month. <br/><br/>All 162 enclaves will stand transferred to the two respective countries on midnight of 31st July, 2015.

The joint survey between India and Bangladesh for exchanging 162 enclaves along the border in North Bengal ended yesterday. Around 61 thousand people residing in these enclaves, gave opinion to settle their citizenship. The joint survey report will be examined today. <br/><br/>The officials of the two sides will review the survey report on next Monday. According to sources, around 1100 people residing at the Indian enclaves situated in Bangladesh, have expressed their desire to come back to India. On the other hand, none is interested to go back to Bangladesh from the Bangladeshi enclave situated in India. <br/><br/>People residing in Indian enclave in Bangladesh can return to India from 1st of August to 30th November this year as per land boundary agreement within the two nation. The Indian Government will give rehabilitation package for these people who will return to their own soil.