Bangladesh
Infiltration The trend of infiltration into India from Bangladesh is decreasing: New Delhi
Dhaka, February 12: The rate of so-called 'infiltration' from Bangladesh to India has been declining for the last five years and is practically declining at a huge rate. State Minister Nityananda Rai's written reply to a question in Parliament on Wednesday (February 10) on behalf of the Union Home Ministry in India shows that the number of people detained as infiltrators at the Indo-Bangladesh border or the number of related cases has dropped significantly in the next five years starting from 2016.
For example, the Indian government says a total of 1,601 people were detained in 2016 for illegally crossing the border. In 2020 that number has come down to 955 people. However, in 2018, 884 people were arrested on suspicion of infiltration.
Similarly, in 2016, where there were more than six hundred and fifty cases of infiltration, in 2018, the cases dropped to 420.
Incidentally, an annual report released by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) a few days ago also found that many more people were being detained trying to enter Bangladesh from India than were caught trying to enter India from Bangladesh. In other words, 'net' migration from India to Bangladesh is not the other way around.
The Trinamool Congress, which is in power in the border state of West Bengal, has claimed that the central government has the primary responsibility to stop the infiltration.
Manas Ranjan Bhuiyan, a Trinamool Congress MP from West Bengal, was given the information by the Home Ministry in response to a question from the MP in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament.
"It is clear from the central government's response to my question that infiltration is not a problem, but an attempt to inflate it politically," the veteran politician said. It is clear that no one from Bangladesh is trying to enter India like before.
Meanwhile, the Bangladesh government has recently said on various platforms that the rate of economic growth and employment opportunities there are now much higher than in India. Therefore, there is no reason for Bangladeshi citizens to migrate to India in search of work or livelihood.
