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“This happens due to the negligence of the Government of India and as a result, these IBV populaces
living in the remote international border areas show their attachment to Bangladeshi way of life than Indian
mainland peoples. Lacks of infrastructure facilities, good monitoring system, educational and cultural
assimilation, et cetera are at the root of this type detachment. Sometimes, ill feelings and ill dealings of Indian
peoples help the Bangladeshi culture to turn them into renegade”, claimed the observers of the India Bangladesh
International Border areas.
The news and the secret information regarding the high powered transmission system of Bangladesh,
which have set into motion to mould the minds of the India inhabitants now attracted towards their system of life,
the Central Government of India takes an emergent step to set up new high powered television transmission
systems in the above noted international border areas, which touch the Eastern Indian States, Assam, Meghalaya,
Tripura, West Bengal and Mizoram respectively, in order to divert their attention to the Indian side. This is clear
from the speech of the Indian Central minister tabled in Indian Parliamentary meetings. Not only that recently,
the Indian Prasar Bharati of DDK is planning to develop the infrastructure of both All India Radio (AIR) and Door
Darshan (DD) to reach most of the areas of the India Bangladesh international border areas to counter anti-India
Propaganda from across the international boundary. The senior official, who was interacting with the media
before formal launch of Hindi-English daily regional bulletins from AIR on 27th August, 2009, said, “Bangladeshi,
Pakistani and Chinese Television Channels, with their strong transmission powers are available on the Indian side
of the international border, while on the other hand, the Indian television channels, particularly DD, riding on
weak and ageing infrastructure, are not available even within India in parts of those regions. The Government of
India seems to have woken up to this lacunae at last and had decided to spend hundreds of crores of rupees to
augment the hardware in the high-power, medium-power and low-power transmitters along the aforesaid Indian
borders with the above three countries, specially. Channels from across the international border often beam
propagandist and anti India programming into Indian areas, while in many areas along the said international
border, public broadcaster DD’s signals are so weak that they are not available even within Indian areas to counter
the same”.
“It is the high time, to take initiative in this regard, before the Indian peoples are motivated towards the
foreign countries as well as the situation go out of hand”, warned the socio-political observers of the country.
(Author is former BBC, The Statesman, The Times of India & Hindustan Times & The Telegraph, AP, AFP &
PTI Contributor-cum-Photographer of Northeast India/The writer specialises in Northeast Affairs)
References :
1. Bangladesh TV, Radio Programmes Famous in India – by Shib Shankar Chatterjee, News Blaze,
(Newswire Organisation of United States of America [USA]), Dated 24th October, 2009.