Highlights
- The chief of Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) said that there was no large-scale infiltration from Bangladesh to India and in the past six months, only 100 infiltrators were intercepted along the border.
- There is no large-scale infiltration from Bangladesh. As the development curve in Bangladesh ,having a GDP of 7.1 and the people enjoy a very good life now in Bangladesh.
- So, there is hardly any migration in an organised way or large-scale manner,”Major-General Shafeenul Islam said at a joint press conference with the BSF.
Reasons
- Bangladeshis mostly crossed over to India because of the cultural ties they shared with people across the border.
- But they come back after visiting their friends and family. It was found out that this is mostly the case.
- The BSF had apprehended 1,522 illegal Bangladeshi migrants so far this year.
- Of these, 166 were inadvertent crossers while some were victims of human trafficking.
- The troops are being sensitized to differentiate between the victim and the perpetrator of the crime of human trafficking.
- Both the chiefs said cattle smuggling had gone down.
- Major-General Shafeenul Islam said the number of killings of Bangladeshi people at the hands of the BSF along the 4,096-km shared border had come down as a number of them were involved in cattle smuggling.
- Bangladesh has more concern about border killings and this is mostly happening with those who were associated with cattle smuggling.
- Having understood that, both the forces have worked together on this front,we were able to take down [the figure of border killing] to only one.
- We have agreed to take it down to zero level.
- Concern about the smuggling of fake notes was also expressed by BSF chief K.K. Sharma.
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