India to lose 10,000 acres in land swap deal with Bangladesh

[idune]

India just reciprocated to BD's help.

Since 1974 border treaty was signed, Bangladesh is rightful owner of these acres of land. Good to see you are admitting Awami regime being indian subservient. But this handover should have been as part of india’s long overdue obligation for treaty it signed. In fact this has been 36 years too late and Bangladesh should ask india to hand over revenue generated from these ten od thousands of acres of land over last 36 years. I am not even counting loss and opportunity cost Bangladesh and Bangladeshis suffered.

 

[Roybot]

Is this guy for real? Revenue generated from 10000 acres of land . Yeah i bet Bangladesh would have built its SEZs in these very 10000 acres, so they missed out on a lot of opportunities. Along with the 10,000 extra acres India must cough out couple of Billion dollars in compensation too.

The treaty was bilateral. Its not India's duty to sort its problem with Bangladesh, your country is an equal partner in the treaty, it needs to be willing too and initiate the process just as much as India. Don't expect India to give everything to you on a silver plate all the time.

It would be funny to see how many people in Bangladeshi enclaves would want to stay in India, and how many Indians in the Indian enclaves would want to stay in Bangladesh.

 

[Christian]

Wow...revenue generated huh?! Sir, I would simply love to find out what you smoke....it looks like quality stuff.

 

[indushek]

Is this guy for real? Revenue generated from 10000 acres of land . Yeah i bet Bangladesh would have built its SEZs in these very 10000 acres, so they missed out on a lot of opportunities. Along with the 10,000 extra acres India must cough out couple of Billion dollars in compensation too.

The treaty was bilateral. Its not India's duty to sort its problem with Bangladesh, your country is an equal partner in the treaty, it needs to be willing too and initiate the process just as much as India. Don't expect India to give everything to you on a silver plate all the time.

It would be funny to see how many people in Bangladeshi enclaves would want to stay in India, and how many Indians in the Indian enclaves would want to stay in Bangladesh.

If u think that post was funny u should have seen the threads he started on India LOL. I think some of them are still around.

 

[arihant]

Since 1974 border treaty was signed, Bangladesh is rightful owner of these acres of land. Good to see you are admitting Awami regime being indian subservient. But this handover should have been as part of india’s long overdue obligation for treaty it signed. In fact this has been 36 years too late and Bangladesh should ask india to hand over revenue generated from these ten od thousands of acres of land over last 36 years. I am not even counting loss and opportunity cost Bangladesh and Bangladeshis suffered.

We have built one SEZ on that very exact place are earning around 500$ Billions. What should we do ? Should we handover that amount to you.

Yaar mazaak ki bhi hadh hoti hein.

 

[cross1993]

The two governments to solve problems is not very good.

In fact, not need exchange of land.
India and Bangladesh can be specified as the Free Trade Area of the land. Then the land will be the key to prosperity.

 

[EjazR]

How can you complain about LeT carrying out attacks all over india when india itself considers kashmir as integral part.BTW what progress india showed on kashimr with pakistan when LeT got banned by musharraf?nothing.And L-e-t is just ramification of indian policies wrt pakistan so y cry foul now when they hit india for all its wrong policies.

When Musharraf banned LeT and shutdown the infiltration routes, Kashmir was the most peaceful it has been in the 2004-2008 period. This was also the time when intensive negotiations on final status where going on and India-Pakistan has probably the best relations they ever had in a decade.

Not only that, according to Kasuri and Musharraf a deal was almost finalized in which both India and Pakistan as well as ALL Kashmiri leaders sepratists as well as mainstream agreed to the proposal which was around the four point formula. So here is proof of positve movement when terror groups are curtailed.

The main reason why this did not take place was first Musharraf had his Judicial crisis and then when the GoI was ready to carry on the proposal forward and implement it, Mumbai attacks happened. So you can see that there is a very logical connection of terrorist attacks leading to no negotiations.

 

[Joe Shearer]

then we must not agree for the deal,
let it be disputed.No problem
i'm sure we'll see protests for this deal in ne.

Why must we not agree to this deal? Are you aware of the circumstances, and the shape of the land in question? Are you at all aware of any single dimension of the problem? An informed response would be helpful.

 

[Joe Shearer]

The two governments to solve problems is not very good.

In fact, not need exchange of land.
India and Bangladesh can be specified as the Free Trade Area of the land. Then the land will be the key to prosperity.

This is regrettably a theoretical solution, which shows complete lack of knowledge of ground conditions. If you read the initial note, and do a little further research, nothing much, perhaps an article or two, it will show you that most of the land involved is in small lots of a few hundred square feet. Rarely, very rarely, does any one patch measure more than a couple of acres. They are widely distributed, and not close together. The matter has nothing to do with economics, but more to do with the wretchedness of peasants working on that land, who are unable to take advantage of the facilities and conveniences, the access to fertilisers, the ability to buy farming tools and implements at village markets, access even to small local retail outlets, access to banking, access to loans and financial support, access to schools and education, access to healthcare centres, even the basic right to vote and to exercise citizenship rights - all these are blocked. An Indian enclave in Bangladesh gets neither the benefits that Bangladeshis get, nor the facilities that Indians get. This is the problem, and not economic use of the land, and certainly not the revenues that were gained or lost, as one very silly response suggested. And because of the small sizes, the wide distribution, and their location in a part of both countries where there is no possibility of setting up a trade zone, due to the absence of surplus labour for taking up industrial work at such zones, a treatment of these as trade zones servicing the two countries is utterly impossible - not due to lack of political will, but due to lack of physical connections.

I hope this helps you to understand better. These were two sets of lands won - and lost by others - during gambling sessions, and hence occur in widely separated locations. They have nothing to do with the blocks of land that each of the feudal estates that contributed to this mess - Cooch Behar in India and Rangpur in Bangladesh - originally possessed. They are just anomalies, which are now being rectified. And finally, they are so funny and inconsequential that it is strange only that the two governments took so long to just do it. For this, the government of India should take the major share of the blame, as it was their delay after the agreements. You will understand from this detailed explanation that other silly people comparing it to Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh are merely indulging their thoroughly perverted sense of humour.