Enclave exchange takes effect tonight

The Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) signed on May 16, 1974 between Bangladesh and India will be implemented midnight tonight (July 31), reports BSS.

A Home Ministry release Thursday said that all Indian enclaves inside Bangladesh will become land of Bangladesh while Bangladeshi enclaves inside India will be considered as Indian land from tonight.

Dwellers of 111 Indian enclaves inside Bangladeshi land, except who wished to be Indian citizen, will be provided Bangladeshi citizenship while dwellers of 51 Bangladeshi enclaves inside Indian land will be considered as Indian citizens.  

Bangladeshi national flag will be hoisted at newly included lands of 111 enclaves in the dawn of August 1, 2015.