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One of many key causes late the delay in land acquisition to erect fences along the Bangladesh border in West Bengal was the coverage followed by the conventional Trinamool Congress authorities, per a 2023 affidavit filed by the Ministry of Residence Affairs (MHA) in the Supreme Court docket.
The MHA had, by way of an affidavit, advised the Supreme Court docket that the West Bengal authorities had no longer adopted the Factual to Perfect-attempting Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act (LARR Act), 2013, under which the authorities can snatch possession of any land wanted for a public motive.
Then Union Residence Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, in the affidavit, stated, “The West Bengal Executive follows a far slower, more advanced Suppose Land Buy Coverage even for nationwide security projects equivalent to border fencing. Attributable to the non-cooperation from the Deliver authorities relating to resolving plenty of points of land acquisition, appreciable delays like happened in acquiring the fundamental land, thereby impeding the smartly timed completion of fencing in West Bengal along the Indo-Bangladesh border, which is a fundamental nationwide security mission.”
On Might per chance perhaps well 11, soon after assuming energy in the Deliver for the first time, the Bharatiya Janata Birthday party (BJP) authorities launched that it had determined to transfer land to the Border Security Power (BSF) staunch by way of the following 45-days.
Per submissions made earlier than the Calcutta High Court docket in January, the West Bengal Executive had handed over 78 km of border land to the BSF over the final three years, while 121 km of border length was yet to be transferred. Of the 285.25 km border length required by the BSF all the way by way of the 9 districts, including Nadia, North 24 Parganas, Murshidabad, Malda, Dakshin Dinajpur, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, and Cooch Behar, the Deliver Cupboard had given clearance for 256 km.
Info introduced earlier than the court showed that the land absorb, measuring around 269 acres along 48.49 km of border, had been performed but was yet to be handed over to the BSF. The acquisition and acquisition of around 1,156 acres remained pending, the facts extra showed.
While listening to a public hobby litigation, the Calcutta High Court docket requested the counsels of the Deliver and the Union Executive “relating to applicability and feasibility of acquisition by invoking Half 40 of the Act of 2013.”
Half 40 of the 2013 Act, “in cases of urgency,” permits the actual authorities to snatch possession of any land wanted for a public motive. The general length of the Indo–Bangladesh border in West Bengal is 22,16.7 km, out of which 1,647.696 km has already been lined by fence.
The MHA advised Parliament closing 365 days that of the final 569.004 km, which is yet to be lined by fence and diversified border infrastructure work, 112.780 km is non-feasible for fencing and 456.224 km is doable for constructing of fencing and connected work.
Printed – Might per chance perhaps well 13, 2026 02:25 am IST
