14/07/2011 13:48
Bangladesh and India have begun their first-ever joint census
Bangladesh and India have begun their first-ever joint census of areas along their border to resolve some territorial anomalies, the BBC News reports.
Tens of thousands of Bangladeshis live in 51 enclaves in India while India has 100 areas within Bangladesh. The enclaves are historical anomalies of the partition of the subcontinent in 1947.
Bangladesh Home Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder told the BBC that India and Bangladesh had agreed to exchange the enclaves in 1974, "but it was not implemented."
The two countries hope to reach some sort of an agreement to exchange these enclaves during Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Dhaka in September, the source writes.