You better read the post I was responding to in order to understand the underlying meaning.You sure you got your facts right?I was under the impression that some WB Muslims have migrated to BD that's all.
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You better read the post I was responding to in order to understand the underlying meaning.You sure you got your facts right?I was under the impression that some WB Muslims have migrated to BD that's all.
I am from Sylhet. So you could misguide people in Delhi or in Maharashtra but not me. I know my fatcs. Thanks for stopping by.
5 LAKH INDIANS WORK ILLEGALLY
Dhaka to raise the issue at home secretary-level meet in New Delhi
Staff Correspondent
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.
5 LAKH INDIANS WORK ILLEGALLY
Dhaka to raise the issue at home secretary-level meet in New Delhi
Staff Correspondent
About half ................
The daily New Age does not keep link for old news. But, if you want I will be sending other reports from the daily star. You will be surprised to see how people from honey-soaked country called India are coming for better opportunity in the flood-prone muddy country called BD. Our economy is booming, but BD does not want superficial share market booms like it was in India.No Link to news ....just plain BS.....
The news report, if true is talking of immigrants who have entered BD legitimately through visas but have stayed back even after expiry of visa. The stay is illegal, no doubt, but is a lot different from what BDs are doing.5 LAKH INDIANS WORK ILLEGALLY
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.
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Link: http://www.newagebd.com/2007/aug/01/front.html#4
How to manage foreigners working illegally in BangladeshTayeb Husain
In Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries on earth (In some other thread some smart alec was arguing that BD was close to being a candy land) ....
One can, however, point out that many Bangladeshi also work in India and India faces the same disadvantages what Bangladesh is complaining about...Bangladeshi illegal workers in India are mostly domestic helpers and workers in agricultural fields and in very few cases, helping hands in small shops and offices of Indian small private business houses. (Somebody was wondering aloud, in some other thread, why would they go to India when they could fly to Malaysia and the Middle East)
No Indian domestic helpers or agricultural labourer comes to Bangladesh for work.(Well well well. The writer is a RAW agent for sure.)
People at the helms of affairs in New Delhi and Kolkata must know that the 4,096-kilometer-long and porous India-Bangladesh border is a time bomb that will explode sooner or later. In West Bengal and particularly places like Maldah, South Dinajpur and Jalpaiguri and other areas adjoining Indo-Bangladesh border, illegal immigration has been a long standing problem.
In Maldah and Jalpaiguri alone more than 70 per cent of rikshaw pullers and workers in the unorganized sector of labour are from Bangladesh without valid papers. In the light of the recent terrorist attacks in different parts of the country, security agencies have been expressing concern that these illegal immigrants could well be involved or lured in terrorist activities in exchange of money or other procurement.
This Citizen Reporter who has been travelling in the entire region during the recent panchayat polls reports that the Border Security Force and the CRPF who have been scrutinizing these polls, have expressed concern what they called political connivance at such infiltration.
The 4,096-kilometer-long and porous India-Bangladesh border makes for easy crossing. In Nagaland, the population of Muslims, mostly illegal migrants from Bangladesh, has more than trebled in the past decade - the figure rising from 20,000 in 1991 to more than 75,000 in 2001. Illegal migrants have settled in various Indian states, including West Bengal, Assam, Bihar (in the northeastern districts of Katihar, Sahebganj, Kishanganj and Purnia), Tripura and even in Delhi.
The steady flow of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh has significantly altered the region''s demographic complexion, particularly in the border districts of West Bengal and Assam, and with important political implications. In Assam illegal migrants affect state politics in a major way, having acquired a critical say in an estimated 50 of the state's 126 assembly constituencies.
At the same time, the steady growth of radical and militant extremists spewing Islamic jargon in Bangladesh since September 11, 2001, and Dhaka's inability, or unwillingness, to tackle the same has raised the stakes further for India. Yet to date it has proved impossible for New Delhi to get an action plan to deal with the problem off the ground. The late national security adviser, J N "Mani" Dixit, was reportedly aware and concerned about these developments. But he did not find eager ears in the Manmohan Singh cabinet to listen and attend to this real danger. It is also known that the US Embassy is aware of the danger, but will not say anything lest it be construed as interfering in another sovereign state's affairs. Internal quibbling among the powers-that-be in Delhi over threat perception priorities has worsened the situation.
Meanwhile, the 1983 legislation that stymied India's historic immigration law, the Foreigners Act of 1946, and seriously tipped the scales in favor of the illegal immigrants - the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act (IMDT) - was recently reinforced by the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. For illegal immigrants, many of whom could be anti-India (or anti-Hindu, whatever fits the objective) extremists and Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) operatives, the playing field remains better than level.
EAST INDIA WATCH: Illegal Immigration: India's Ticking Time Bomb