India sees control over South Talpatti as ‘significant gain’
July 14, 2014 12:32
The Indian government views as a ‘significant gain’ its achievement of the control of the disputed South Talpatti, known as New Moore island in India, and concomitant access to Hariabhanga river through the verdict of the Permanent Court of Arbitration on India-Bangladesh maritime border dispute.
The Bangladesh government and local and regional media hyped the verdict as Bangladesh’s conquering the sea while the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance was criticising the government for losing the South Talpatti island.
The New Delhi-based television NDTV in its report headlined ‘UN tribunal resolves 40-year-old maritime dispute between India and Bangladesh’ on Sunday said it had accessed an internal note of the Indian government which
‘suggests otherwise’, ‘So has India lost out?’.
‘Even though India believes the delimitation has been done in an arbitrary fashion, it is not the loser. Control of the disputed New Moore Island and concomitant access to Hariabhanga river is a significant gain,’ the television channel reported.
‘The island, supposedly rich in oil and natural gas, has been a traditional sore point between the two neighbouring countries. The Hariabhanga river flows [through] the Sundarbans in West Bengal and borders Satkhira district of Bangladesh, and the region holds twice the amount of hydrocarbons as compared to the Krishna-Godavari basin in Andhra Pradesh,’ adds the report uploaded on its website on Sunday.
- See more at:
India sees control over South Talpatti as ‘significant gain’