Bill for LBA likely to be in Parliament monsoon session; Delhi to Dhaka

A constitution amendment bill for implementation of India-Bangladesh land boundary agreement is likely to be introduced in the coming monsoon session of Parliament.
New Delhi has conveyed this to Dhaka during the Home Secretary-level talks held here today, official sources said.
Through the constitutional amendment bill, India wants to ratify the 1974 Indira-Mujib pact for demarcation of boundaries and for exchange of 161 adversely-held enclaves with a population of about 50,000 people, sources said.
While Bangladesh Parliament has already approved the land boundary deal, India needs to introduce a constitutional rpt constitutional amendment bill because its implementation involves territory swap.

The approval of land boundary accord has been hanging fire because the government lacks the two-thirds majority in Parliament for its passage.
During the talks today, both sides discussed the modalities for implementation of the extradition treaty signed by both the countries early this year which will pave the way for deportation of ULFA 'general secretary' Anup Chetia, currently lodged in a Bangladeshi jail.

"We are taking forward the dialogue from where we left off. Constant cooperation between India and Bangaldesh is going on," Bangladesh's High Commissioner to India Tariq A. Karim, who took part in the meeting, told reporters here.

Asked when Chetia would be deported, Karim said "the process is on. When it will happen, it will happen".
Joint Secretary (Northeast) in the Home Ministry Shambhu Singh said deportation of Chetia to India will take some more time.
The Indian side was led by Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami while Bangladeshi delegation was led by their Home Secretary C Q K Mustaq Ahmed.