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The West Bengal authorities has handed astir 32 acres to the Border Security Force (BSF) for fencing on the India-Bangladesh border, a process that had been pending for respective years, Panchayat Minister Dilip Ghosh said connected Wednesday (June 3, 2026).
Briefing reporters aft a gathering of the State Cabinet, Mr. Ghosh said the authorities has besides approved proposals for transportation of onshore to the BSF for mounting up imperishable borderline outposts and carrying retired fencing enactment successful respective borderline districts.
"In keeping with our archetypal furniture gathering determination to manus implicit onshore to the BSF for fencing, the authorities has fixed 31.905 acres astatine 9 places successful the State on the borderline with Bangladesh," Mr. Ghosh said.
He said that the onshore and onshore reforms section has placed earlier the furniture a connection for transportation of 1.53 acres successful Malda, Murshidabad and Cooch Behar districts for mounting up imperishable borderline outposts astatine 3 locations on the planetary border.
Another connection seeks transportation of 12.72 acres astatine 11 locations successful Uttar Dinajpur territory to facilitate fencing enactment on the border, helium said.
The contented of onshore transportation for borderline fencing had remained contentious successful the State, with the Calcutta High Court earlier criticising the erstwhile State authorities for delays successful handing implicit onshore to the BSF for securing the planetary border.
Mr. Ghosh said the furniture besides considered a connection for transportation of 20 acres of authorities onshore astatine Nagrakata successful Jalpaiguri territory to the wood department, which would subsequently manus it implicit for the Sevak-Rangpo railway enactment project.
