Ex-Enclave: How are they doing after five years of sovereignty?

Five years ago, after sixty-eight years in a nationality grey zone, the country’s newest citizens, former enclaves, lit up the land in a celebration of lights and merriment as the clock struck the midnight hour. Sixty-eight candles, one for each year that the so-called chhitmahals have been in existence, were lit up at the same time across all 111 new territories that passed into Bangladeshi sovereignty at 12:01am 01 August 2015. For the first time in their lives, they belonged to an independent land. Five years down the line, there has been slow but steady development in the former enclaves, leading to an improvement in the lives of the residents With acres of cultivable lands and waterbodies, along with newly-developed schools, the villagers can surely hope for better days ahead