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Ratifying Land Boundary Deal

New Delhi assures Dhaka of placing bill in Dec

Our Correspondent, New Delhi
India yesterday assured Bangladesh of introducing a bill in the coming session of its parliament in December to ratify the land boundary agreement.
Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid conveyed this to his counterpart Dipu Moni when the two had a bilateral meeting on the margins of Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) of foreign ministers in New Delhi yesterday evening.
Salman Khurshid reassured Dipu Moni of his intention to introduce the constitutional amendment related to the land boundary agreement in parliament in December, said Indian officials.
While Bangladesh has ratified the land boundary agreement long back, its implementation by India has been held up since long because Indian parliament needs to approve it through a constitution amendment bill.
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A constitution amendment bill is required because the land boundary agreement envisages swapping of land in the exchange of 161 adversely-held enclaves by India and Bangladesh, it is after the enclaves are exchanged that the boundary demarcation can be done.
The Indian government's efforts to introduce the bill in parliament in its budget and monsoon session this year had been scuttled by severe opposition from BJP, Assam Cana Parishad and Trinamool Congress lawmakers who are opposed to the land boundary agreement on the ground that
India would stand to cede territory to Bangladesh.
The two ministers also discussed other issues of bilateral interest, including implementation of the agreement for powersharing and the benefits accruing to the ordinary people from it, said the sources.
India had since October 5 begun supplying 250MW of subsidised electricity to Bangladesh through a trans-border grid of NTPC, fulfilling a key decision reached by the two countries during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to Delhi in January, 2010.
Bangladesh is also set to
purchase another 250MW power from private manufacturers in open market for which the agreement is yet to be signed.
The recent incident of a cocktail bomb explosion near the Indian Assistant High Commission in Chittagong also came up at the discussion, they said, adding the impact of the district collector-level meetings was also assessed.
The two ministers also discussed other regional issues of common interest and agreed to keep in touch during the forthcoming meeting of the CHOGM in Sri Lanka.