Though the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord was signed in 1997, and the officials of the land survey department hardly visit those areas due to fear of 'clandestine attacks' by the anti social elements.
Bangladesh border with the north-eastern states are mostly hilly, terrain and remote. The officials of the Department of Land
Records and Survey could not visit those areas due to lack of security, sources of the concerned department told The New Nation.
Bangladesh shares about 1,023 kilometres border with the Indian states of Meghalaya, Assam, Mizoram and Tripura. Bangladesh shares 202 kilometres border with Assam, 443 kilometres with Meghalaya, 318 kilometres with Mizoram and 85 kilometres with Tripura.Sources said, except 0.3 kilometres of international frontier pillar No 1,102 to 1,107, the demarcation of Bangladesh border with the Assam has been shown done in black and white.
Similarly, international pillar No 1,071 to 1,338 between Bangladesh and Megahalaya border was also shown demarcated.
On the other hand, demarcation of about eight kilometers of Bangladesh and Mizoram and about 36 kilometres border between Bangladesh and Tripura also left undone.
A high official of the Land Records and Survey said that they would request the government to take initiative to sit with the Indian government to demarcate border in some areas of the north-eastern Indian states soon.