Guwahati (Assam): The non-implementation of the Assam Accord has resulted in the state facing the problem of immigrants from Bangladesh. Even today, the sealing of the Indo-Bangladesh border is incomplete. The barbed wire fencing along the border has been almost completed in other areas but the four-kilometre stretch in the Karimganj district of Assam remains open.
The National Buildings Construction Corporation(NBCC) started the barbed wire fencing in the border areas of the Kushiyara River that flows through Karimganj town in 2009. But it has not been able to complete it till today. The main reason for this is the inability of people settling on the banks of the river to be shifted to other places.
Financial assistance is provided to people to relocate to other places. However, the fencing of the four-kilometre area is still incomplete as people are settled in the same place. The barbed wire fences should be given at a distance of 150 yards from the border, but as several people were living on the banks of the Kushiyara River, the distance of fencing was reduced to 50 yards. India and Bangladesh governments took a decision in this regard. But despite that fencing the entire border has not been possible.