Shillong, April 06: A joint survey of the disputed India-Bangladesh border along the Meghalaya stretch, that resumed on Tuesday after three months, was stalled yet again following differences between officials from the two sides.
Though survey officials of both sides had decided to resume the exercise yesterday at the disputed tracts of Muktapur and Pyrdiwah bordering Bangladesh?s Sylhet district, differences surfaced on the mandate of the survey, officials said.
An official told PTI the Bangladeshi side were refusing to recognize ‘adverse possession lands’ (APLs) held by India like those tracts in Muktapur and Pyrdiwah, and they pressed for a survey of the border pillars instead.
Discussions were on between the survey officials of both sides, but no headway has been achieved, the source said.
–Agencies