DHAKA, July 20 (NsNewsWire) — The Joint Boundary Working Group (JBWG) of India and Bangladesh is scheduled to meet on Thursday in Dhaka to implement the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) ratified in the last Parliament session, officials said here on Sunday, reports Times of India.

The group will decide on marking the border after enclaves are exchanged under the land deal. The meeting will be attended by delegates from India, Bangladesh and Myanmar. Besides, secretary-level officers from the northeastern states, sharing borders with Bangladesh, will also attend the meeting. Tripura will be represented by state revenue secretary Punit Agarwal.

According to the agreement, the disputed Chandannagar village of Kamalpur in Dhalai district of Tripura would merge with the Indian territory while Muhuri Char of Belonia in southern Tripura would go to Bangladesh, said revenue minister Badal Choudhury.

The residents of Chandannagar like all the other 162 enclaves — 111 in India and 51 in Bangladesh — do not have citizen rights of either country and have remained deprived of all welfare schemes of the government. There are 51 families with a little over 300 people living there. They are allowed to cultivate on the other side of the fencing near the Dhalai river, but most of the times, Bangladeshi villagers take away their crops.

The Parliament passed an amended bill, 41 years after the accord was signed by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Bangladeshi counterpart, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The land swap protocol envisages transfer of 111 enclaves with a total area of 17,160.63 acres to Bangladesh, while the neighbouring country will transfer 51 enclaves with an area of 7,110.02 acres to India.