Seven hundred seventy-nine residents of 111 Indian enclaves on Bangladesh side opted for going to India while no one of the residents of Bangladeshi enclaves on Indian side intended to come to Bangladesh, according to the Indo-Bangla joint survey report.
Chief of Bangladesh survey team Deputy Commissioner of Lalmonirhat Md Habibur Rahman disclosed the report at a press briefing yesterday.
The reports were handed over to Rangpur divisional commissioner’s office yesterday morning.
According to the joint report, there are 14500 residents in the 51 Bangladeshi enclaves on the Indian side, and 44500 people in 111 Indian enclaves landlocked in Bangladesh.
Among the 779 residents of Indian enclaves, 163 are Muslims, said Deputy Commissioner Md Habibur Rahman.
Theses enclave residents will be permitted to go to India through any border from August 1 to November 3, he said.
Meanwhile, a meeting of joint boundary working committee will be held in Dhaka on July 23.
The five-member Bangladesh survey team went to Chengrabandha in Cooch Behar district of India though Burimari land port on Monday to attend a meeting on joint enclave survey in 162 enclaves.
The joint survey began in Bangladesh and India on July 6 to record the choice of nationality of 51,584 people in 162 enclaves in each other’s territories ahead of enclave exchange on July 31 next.
According to the Land Boundary Agreement signed recently between the two countries, 75 joint teams were formed to conduct the survey. Among the teams, 50 worked in Bangladesh and 25 in Cooch Behar district of India.
The survey included a joint census, enlistment of land category, taking photograph and filling up of forms mentioning one’s desire which country’s citizenship s/he prefers.