Indo-Bangla land swap
105 more leave for India
Our correspondent, Panchagarh
With a heavy heart, 105 residents of the former Dhaolakahkrabari enclave under Debiganj upazila of Panchagarh district permanently left for India yesterday.
Additional District Magistrate Golam Azom had been formally apprised to see them off from Debiganj Degree College premises at 9.30am yesterday morning.
Debiganj upazila Nirbahi officer Md. Safiqul Islam and Indian High Commissioner First Secretary Roma Kantao Guptu were also present on the occasion. This is the fourth time 108 newly Indian citizens have enrolled to go to India however three of them did not go.
The 105 citizens entered India from the outskirts of Vogtaburi Chilahati in the afternoon. People had been full of hope when they enrolled for the first time to leave for India but now at the fourth attempt, the newly-Indian citizens were a tad disappointed to leave Bangladesh as they had no idea what they would be doing in India.
District administration said that 489 citizens, including two new-born babies from the former enclave in Panchagarh had been finalised to leave for India.
As of today, 450 citizens had gone to India (four batches). Of the remaining 39 citizens, 34 would go to India on November 30 from the outskirts of Burimary. Meanwhile, five citizens have decided not to leave Bangladesh.
