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The exchange of enclaves was to be implemented in phases between 31 July 2015 and 30 June 2016. [11] The enclaves were exchanged at midnight on 31 July 2015 and the transfer of enclave residents was completed on 30 November 2015. [12] After the Land Boundary Agreement, India lost around 40 square kilometres (15 sq mi) to Bangladesh. [13] [14]
On 7 May 2015 the Indian Parliament, in the presence of Bangladeshi diplomats, unanimously passed the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) as its 100th Constitutional amendment, thereby resolving all 68-year-old border disputes since the end of the British Raj. The bill was pending ratification since the 1974 Mujib-Indira accords.
Another agreement was agreed upon in 2011 to exchange enclaves and adverse possessions. With respect to adverse possessions, India received 7,110.2 acres of land and transferred 17,160.63 acres to Bangladesh. India ratified the agreement by constitutional amendment in May 2015. [155] Muhurichar river island India Bangladesh: 1974 2011
It was separated by a few metres of Bangladeshi land from its first-order Indian enclave. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The owner of this enclave was a Bangladeshi farmer who lived in the enclave surrounding Dahala Khagrabari (#51).
Road connecting Dahagram-Angarpota enclave with mainland Bangladesh. The border fence around Tin Bigha Corridor. According to the Indira Gandhi-Sheikh Mujibur Rahman treaty of 16 May 1974, India and Bangladesh were to hand over the sovereignty of the Tin Bigha Corridor (178 by 85 metres (584 ft × 279 ft)) and South Berubari (7.39 km 2 (2.85 sq mi)) to each other, thereby allowing access to ...
For example, two-thirds of the then-existing national-level enclaves were extinguished on 1 August 2015, when the governments of India and Bangladesh implemented a Land Boundary Agreement that exchanged 162 first-order enclaves (111 Indian and 51 Bangladeshi).
The Radcliffe Line was published on 17 August 1947 as a boundary demarcation line between the dominions of India and Pakistan upon the partition of India.It was named after its architect, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, who, as chairman of the Border Commissions, was charged with equitably dividing 450,000 square kilometres (175,000 sq mi) of territory with 88 million people based on religious lines. [2]
1965 — Jordan and Saudi Arabia concluded a bilateral agreement that realigned and defined the boundary. 1967 — The Federation of South Arabia and the Protectorate of South Arabia join to form South Yemen. 1967 — Following the Six-Day War, Israel gains the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip from Egypt, the West Bank from Jordan and Golan ...