Adverse Possessions of India and Bangladesh will be exchanged
Q. Which of the following is/are true regarding Adverse Possessions?
1) People living in the Adverse Possessions do not enjoy right to vote of the country of which they are citizens.
2) With the adjustment of adverse possessions in the implementation of the 2011 Protocol, India gains more land.- Published on 23 Sep 16a. Only 1
b. Only 2
c. Both 1 and 2
d. Neither 1 nor 2
ANSWER: Only 2
- People living in the Adverse Possessions are technically in occupation and possession of land beyond the boundary pillars, but are administered by the laws of the country of which they are citizens and they enjoy all legal rights, including right to vote.
- They have deep-rooted ties to their land which goes back decades and are categorically unwilling to be uprooted. Many local communities had sentimental or religious attachments to the land in which they lived.
- It thus became extremely difficult to implement the terms of Land Boundary Agreement of 1974 as it meant having to uproot people from the land in which they had lived and developed sentimental and religious attachments to.
- With the adjustment of adverse possessions in the implementation of the 2011 Protocol, India will receive 2777.038 acres of land and transfer 2267.682 acres of land to Bangladesh.
