5 lakh Indians work illegally

[BanglaBhoot]

5 lakh Indians work illegally

Dhaka to raise the issue at home secretary-level meet in New Delhi

Staff Correspondent

New Age – August 1, 2007

About half a million Indian nationals, who enter Bangladesh with tourist visas, are illegally working in various sectors and remitting millions of takas to India through hundi, revealed an intelligence agency report.

They overstay, work without permission and evade income tax, depriving the government of a huge amount of revenue, said the report recently submitted to the Ministry of Home Affairs.
‘Most of them come with tourist visas for a week or two but stay for months or years,’ said an official of the intelligence agency.

Officials at the home ministry said the issue would be raised at the home secretary-level meeting of the two neighbouring nations beginning in New Delhi on Thursday.
‘The issue will be one of the top agenda of the two-day meeting,’ a senior official of the ministry told New Age on Tuesday.

According to the report, thousands of Indian nationals come to Bangladesh on tourist visas and get employed in various jobs in the export processing zones, garment factories, information technology companies, English medium schools and textiles and fisheries industries.
‘They do not bother to seek permission for work or extend their visas,’ said the official of the intelligence agency that prepared the report after months of investigation.

Thousands of nationals from other countries also stay and work in Bangladesh the same way, but the home ministry officials time and again have failed to ascertain their number.
The home ministry official said Bangladesh would take up the issue strongly in the New Delhi meeting.

‘The Indians coming with tourist visas will have to seek permission from the Bangladesh government for working here, and pay income tax,’ he said. ‘As they work illegally, they send their earned money illegally to India.’

A 12-meeber delegation led by the home secretary, Md Abdul Karim, will leave Dhaka today to attend the meeting which will also discuss a number of contentious issues.

Fencing on the border by Indian, cross-border smuggling, the bid to push in Bangla-speaking Indian nationals, unprovoked firing and killing of innocent Bangladeshis by jawans of the Indian Border Security Force are the issues expected to dominate the discussion.

Implementing the 1974 Land Border Agreement signed by the two neighbours to exchange enclaves and hand over Bangladeshi criminals staying in India will also come up in the meeting.
Sources in the home ministry said the security aspect of the Dhaka-Kolkata express train service would be given due importance in the meeting since the issue is yet to be resolved.
The director-general of the Bangladesh Rifles, director-general of the foreign ministry, senior officials of the home ministry and Joint River Commission and additional inspector-general of police will accompany the home secretary to the eight meeting. Such a meeting is supposed to be held every year.

The last home secretary-level meeting was held in Dhaka in April 2006.

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[intruder]

Another BS.....MR.Munshi , As I have told you earlier please you and Mr.Ali (you two claim to be lawyers in Bangladesh SC) can file PIL and put all evidence in front to SC and kick out atleast 'ONE' Indian working illeagly ...... hopefully you will take my challange .....

 

[Adux]

This is getting extermely hillarious

 

[BanglaBhoot]

If the government can kick out 5 lakhs then why waste money on 1 individual. Actually the suggestion about bringing a case is impractical. It is not for the SC to throw out illegals that is the government's job. Only the government can undertake such a task. The SC can order the government to do this but there is no implementation machinery for the courts to enforce it or verify if the order is being carried out.

 

[HK-47]

yep there are illegal Indians and Indian kashmiris who came here to study or get jobs.heard of them,I know people who knows them but not sure about the numbers.

related question:when the Indo-BD barrier is operational,how will traders do their jobs?will their be certain entryways?what about the paths to the enclaves?

 

[Ababeel]

It must be the task taken by the security agencies as well as the public as it has happened in Indian State of Maharashtra in Mumbai the capital in the past when the security agencies with the help of hooligans of Shiv Sena were catching the "Bengladeshis" (Incl. muslims from Indian state of Bengal) and sending them forcefully to the other side of the border.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

I have a different take.

All illegals are a menace to society.

The fence will ensure that if there are illegals from India, they will be stopped by the fence. Good thing. Catch them and do not deport. Put them in jails so that they learn their lesson!

They go on tourist visa? What class of people are they? Labour?

Heaven help me. That blows my chance of visiting Bangladesh! Though I may still have a chance. I don't quite look like the labour class and some of my students are Generals there!

Baghdadi,

You can always tell a East Bengali from the West Bengali. The language and the accent! Religion is normally not stamped on the faces, unless they have the typical beards that Moslems have.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Hopefully all illegals the world over are kicked out!

I am sure UK, Europe and US will be thrilled at this common agenda!

 

[intruder]

nowadays it has become so easy to forge documents, that virtually anybody can become a citizen of third-world countries like bangladesh & india.

getting a fake voter ID card in both india & bangladesh is easy

something must be done to check this menace.

hopefully the indians will be deported.

I am not sure about your expertise enzo, fresh grad in India get around 20000 INR PM. I am not sure of IT salary in BD ..... for sure guys will not cross paddy fields ... to get a pitance when they can make fortune in INDIA....

 

[Adux]

Are you guys friggin serious!!!! I am sorry, There is no way the salaries of the two countries are comparable. One a rising economic giant another, on a downward spiral to you know what

 

[TexasJohn]

nowadays it has become so easy to forge documents, that virtually anybody can become a citizen of third-world countries like bangladesh & india.

getting a fake voter ID card in both india & bangladesh is easy

something must be done to check this menace.

hopefully the indians will be deported.

Forging documents in first-world in easy also. Would you give me a hand in booting out at least 500,000 Mexicans? Then we can work on the remaining 12 million...

 

[Bushroda]

Forging documents in first-world in easy also. Would you give me a hand in booting out at least 500,000 Mexicans? Then we can work on the remaining 12 million...

Hispanic population in US is nearly 35 million and atleast another 5 million illegal.

 

[BanglaBhoot]

The situation that the US is facing is vastly different from that of India. A comparable situation would be if 500 000 US citizens illegally entered Mexico for work. In the present scenario we are talking about 500 000 illegal Indians in Bangladesh. The US is an advanced nation while India still remains a backward one. I think the news report I have put up illustrates the differences between the US and India.

 

[BanglaBhoot]

WB ranks Bangladesh 3rd largest economy in S Asia

The Financial Express - August 2, 2007

Bangladesh has emerged the world's 56th largest economy, with its economic output totalling US$62 billion (6,200 crore), according to the World Bank.

In terms of the size of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), as reckoned in 2006, Bangladesh also became the third largest economy in South Asia, according to the latest estimates tallied by the bank, headquartered in Washington.

Bangladesh economy is much larger than that of the conflict-torn Sri Lanka, although per capita GDP in the island state far exceeds that of Bangladesh. The GDP of Sri Lanka, which is the fourth largest economy in the SAARC region, was reckoned at $27 billion.

According to government figures, the per capita income of Bangladesh rose to $520 in the last fiscal from $480 of the fiscal 2006, as the economy continues to power ahead.

A look at the global ranking reveals that Bangladesh is also ahead of Vietnam ($61 billion), considered an emerging economic tiger in South East Asia.

Bangladesh economy has sustained growth in the range of 5.5 per cent in the last decade, although the rate decelerated to 6.5 per cent in the just-out fiscal.

The economy posted record growth of 6.6 per cent in the fiscal 2006.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said the country's economy is expected to grow by around 6.5-7.0 per cent for the medium term, riding largely on buoyant garment exports and remittance flows.

The growth momentum can be maintained in view of the fact that agriculture is expected to pick up again in FY08 and aid and private flows will help sustain investment, including in power infrastructure, the IMF said in a recent analysis.

Similarly, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Bangladesh holds "strong potential" for higher GDP growth of 7.0 per cent-8.0 per cent for the medium term.

In its latest quarterly economic update, the ADB said: "Growth was underpinned by steady expansion in manufacturing and continued buoyancy in services. Private consumption was the main driver of growth, bolstered by strong remittance inflows".

At 24.3 per cent of GDP, investment during FY2007 was lower than 24.7 per cent of the preceding year causing a decline in public investment, while private investment rose modestly.

http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=6511

 

[Adux]

Oh my god , are you friggin serious. This is the King of Generalizations here. There is 3 million Bangladeshi's in Indian soil, Heck i had them as my construction works, cuz they were cheapers; better sense prevailed and i then decided to hand them over to the police. They are being deported as we speak. They have reached as far as south Indian small state of kerala