CCIB reiterates opposition to Indo-Bangla land swap deal

NONGPOH: Registering their strong resentment and opposition over the proposed implementation of Indo- Bangla Land Swap Deal for the proper demarcation of boundary pillar as per Indo – Bangla Land Swap Deal, being signed by the then India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2011, the Co-ordination Committee on International Border (CCIB) on Friday opposed and also posed claims that the boundary pillar (demarcation Line) as per the land swap deal is totally incorrect.
The CCIB is a conglomeration of the frontal social organizations of Meghalaya comprising Khasi Students’ Union (KSU), Federation of Khasi Jaintia & Garo People (FKJGP), Hynniewtrep National Youth Front (HNYF), FWMWJ, the traditional chiefs and land owners of the Indo-Bangla border (Meghalaya Sector).
Opposing the Indo-Bangla land swap deal for resolving the permanent boundary pillar between India and Bangladesh, the leaders of the CCIB took up the matter with Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju seeking immediate action and appealing to him to take up the matter with the Union Cabinet to exclude Meghalaya in the land swap deal.
According to the memorandum submit to Rijiju, CCIB informed that the land swap deal signed by Manmohan Singh and Sheikh Hasina has been taking up without informing or consulting the traditional heads, village and land owners, which will lead to huge loss of land if the boundary pillar will be settle as per the land swap deal 2011.
“CCIB cannot accept the land swap deal because the total land under the adverse possession from Pillar No 1251 till 1299 in Meghalaya Sector is 559.7 acres, if 240.5 acres come to Meghalaya and 41.7 acres to Bangladesh, what about the remaining 278 acres of land which had not been shown in the report,” CCIB stated.