BDR Pushes Poor & Illegal Bangladeshis Into India

BANGLADESHIS SNEAK INTO INDIA IN THE NAME OF FREE MEDICAL CHECK UPS
SHIB SHANKAR CHATTERJEE
Story – A :
….. Muhammad Jamil Rehman, a trader, who had come to India to get his mother treated was one of
those, who preferred to stay back, for thorough health-check-ups of his mother in India, where medical facilities
cheap and best in the Asian countries. “I am not willing to take any risk in my country, where medical aid is very
poor quality and not sustainable or proper for each and every diseases. It’s true that our Indian visas are valid for
only next 07-days more, but, I have no way, I will go back to pavilion only after my mother’s treatment is over (in
fact, until and unless my mother becomes come round fully) not before that”, said Jamil.
After he entered into India through the International Border Check Post (IBCP) at Mahadipur under
Malda district of Indian West Bengal State (IWBS), he stayed in a lodge at district headquarter town, Malda. But,
still his mother cured in India, he had gotten in touch with his family regularly. Even, he had spoken over
telephone to his wife and child at Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh that in future he will come to India for anybody
…..
Story – B :
..... It is an as usual picture on India-Bangladesh International Border, where each and everybody like
Muhammad Ashraful Rezzak, a Bangladeshi citizen with his family are in a queue of 40-numbers to 50-numbers
of people and waiting for clearance to cross over to the Indian side for better treatment to his ailing wife, Rubina
Biwi and daughter, Rukaiya Khatun.
But, in practically, the Rezzak family always keeps in mind that since India Bangladesh international
border always a controversial and sensitive and even, the issues like immigration, smuggling, aggressive religious
fundamentalism, trafficking and insurgency activities are related to this particular international border.
Therefore, they neither wants to stay more days after completion of their treatment nor didn’t take any risk before
the aforesaid international boundary would be sealed for indefinite times after or before any kind of violence
escalate on the above international boundary for the above reasons …..
Story – C :
….. Most of the time, the situation tells different stories. A good number of Bangladeshi foreign nationals
have stayed in India illegally in the name of better medical treatment. Like Muhammad Rukun Zaman, resident of
Rajsahi District of Bangladesh, who had come to Kolkata, the capital of the Indian State, West Bengal for the
treatment of his son (who is 08-years-old) and suffering from respiratory problem in a private hospital. They were
forced to back to home in Bangladesh through Mahadipur IBCP, as they found that their visa had expired.
“My son’s treatment is incomplete, but 65% (per cent) has been cured, doctor advices me, ‘I must come
here once again and complete the treatment as well as the course of medicine simultaneously’. So, I have decided
that I will definitely come to India for the sake of my son’s better life. Here, the physicians are too good”, told
emotionally Muhammad Zaman …..

Indeed, in India, now a day, ‘Infiltration’ (whether it is legal or illegal) is one of the most burning and
sensitive problems. It has been taking place in diversified ways. The recent Government and Non Government
Organisation’s report exposes that many Bangladeshis illegally sneaking into India through various authorized
(International Border Gate-IBG) ways as patients to receive ‘free medical treatment’ from the Indian state’s runs
not only government hospitals as well as the medical health centres but also private medical institutions. Some of
these foreign nationals go back to their country and it remains here for days, months and years together. Most
astonishing fact is that the hospitals or medical units, which are run by Indian Central or State Governments, not
only supply the medicines to the foreign nationals but also arrange for their food and lodging, sometimes. In this
context, the foreign nationals are admitted that they’re getting this help from the above medical units with the
help of below poverty line certificate and this happens because of some touts and elected representatives, who
help them a lot in an illegal way. The legal and illegal infiltrators, who are entering into India, offer a good amount
of money (bribe) for availing of these opportunities.
R. P. Singh, the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Border Security Force of India (BSFI) of the
international border areas got disgusted and remarked, “This is quite untamable and disgusting. Everyday, a good
number of Bangladeshi peoples is illegally entered into Indian territory in the guise of patients with fake medical
certificates as a document and create unnecessary problems and headaches”.
He further added, “Even, the Bangladeshi foreign patients are carrying Below Poverty Line (BPL)
certificate gets this opportunity of free medical treatment. The certificate is provided only, when the candidate’s
yearly income does not exceed Rs. 02,000. Certificates are required to obtain from local Member of Legislative
Assembly of Bangladesh (MLAB)s or officers of Block or District level of Bangladesh”.
Supporting the fact, one of the local physician at Agartala, the capital of the Indian Northeastern State,
Tripura averred, “In my health-centre, 25% (percent) to 30% (percent) of the patients are Bangladeshis and they
hide their real identity and enlist their name and addresses in the registered book as an Indian to avail of better
treatment. But, if you can see them, anyone may easily guess that their colloquial language and dresses indicate

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their real identity, while as a doctor and as a people of India, we take care of them on humanitarian ground, while
International Border Security Force (IBSF) – BSFI and the Indian Police Force (IPF), including the people also
behave with them sympathetically”. Because, India has a culture of Atithi Debaya Bhaba, means : ‘Guest is God
and we should take care of them properly’.
“It is true that Bangladeshis are come to India for better medical treatment. Bangladeshi patients are
available in the Indian Tripura State’s hospitals like – Agartala Government Medical College Hospital, Sonamura
Hospital, both are in West Tripura district, while in North Tripura District - Kailasahar Government Hospital, et
cetera”, affirmed one of the renowned senior journalist of Agartala town, Manas Paul.
“Around 50,000-numbers of Bangladeshis are come to India every year for better medical treatment only.
If you go to the Indian High Commission offices at Chittagong, Dhaka and Rajshahi of Bangladesh, you will see
the more than 50% (percent) Bangladeshi nationals are in a queue for visa purpose for medical treatment to India,
apart from tourism and pilgrimage, study, business, cultural activities, visiting relatives, weeding or funeral
purposes, et cetera”, emphasized an Indian Research Analysis Wing (RAW) official, who were deputed in
Bangladesh around 10-years to 12-years back.
“It is fact, indeed statistics have indicated that. If you also go to the each and every IBCPs that lie on the
Indo-Bangla international boundary on both side, you will find out that most of the IBCPs are full of Bangladeshi
peoples, who are waiting to enter into India and to return from India with valid passports and visas for and after
medical treatment than the others above matters. Not only that even, from India, maximum doctors are come to
Bangladesh to heal our country patients through better medical diagnosis”, confirmed one of the official of the
Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FBCCI).
However, the above reports have exposed that more than 500-numbers of Bangladeshi nationals are
received free medical treatment every o1-month to 03-months. However, of them only 15% (percent) or so belong
to this BPL category. Neither any law nor any agreement is there for allowing foreign nationals to have free
treatment in India. But, yet, it goes on. Upon enquiry, it is known from BSFI source that 20% (percent) to 30%
(percent) of the Bangladeshi infiltrators are arrested in the India Bangladesh International Border areas or IBGs
during the entered into Indian land with a view to getting free medical health treatment, but without valid or
proper documents too.
“See, it is a serious matter for us. We do not know the exact motive of the illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
Only few illegal infiltrators disclose their intensions openly, that they’ve entered into India for better medical
treatment facilities, because, they are very poor, while the rest are unknown.
Therefore, it is difficult to say that everyday, how many Bangladeshi nationals are come to India for only
better medical purposes, but, we will look into the matter seriously”, emphasized Biswanath Chowdhury, IWBS
Minister for Jails & Social-Welfare (of Revolutionary Socialist Party [RSP] Member of Legislative Assembly [MLA]
from Balurghat Assembly Constituency of South Dinajpur district, earlier known as – West Dinajpur district of
IWBS).
“Indeed, the Bangladesh has lack good health service. There is neither any Hospital nor any Health Centre
(Public), Maternity Home has been well equipped. Therefore, whenever anybody falls ill or becomes the victim of
any disease in very serious, he or she is required to go to nearby health-centre of India. Specially, the populaces of
the International Border Village (IBV)s that lie on the Indo-Bangla international boundary. Even, the Bangladeshi
inhabitants use foreign currency to buy their good health service from India.
Most awful situation is that in some Bangladeshi village areas, there is one or two small health-centres but
these are also in shattered conditions. Here, doctors are quite helpless and as such instead of giving medicines,
they offer only prescriptions. Want of ambulance many times forces the patients to face many troubles”, admitted
a physician of a government sanatorium of Bangladesh at Tamabil, an International Border Town (IBT) under
Sylhet Division of Sylhet district of Bangladesh, who doesn’t want to disclose his name.
“Moreover, even, the Bangladeshi children do not have any good opportunity of vaccination or anti
diseases injection for want of the facilities of medical helps of any sort and so the death rate of the children is very
high. As a result, sometimes, these children fall victims of ‘Polio’ and such other diseases”, rued a Bangladeshi
doctor of a Public Health Centre (PHC), who came to India for better treatment for his children and don’t want to
disclose his name.
He further added, “Sometimes, most of the ailed patients die of diseases like, diphtheria, typhoid, Haam
or Haambasanta (that is, measles), Dhanustankar (that is, tetanus), cholera, pneumonia, Kala-Azaar (that is,
black-fever), diarrhea, dengue, chronic dysentery, Jaundice, et cetera”.
Saahid Mamun, an eminent social observer, who lives in Bangladesh’s district headquarter Naogaon’s
Pouro Bazar area acknowledged, “Treatment in India is easier and cheaper compared to other cities in the World”.
While the officials of the BSFI stated, “It is fact that through the International Border Immigration Check Post
(IBICP) at Hili in South Dinajpur district of the IWBS, most of the Bangladeshis visit India for ‘medical
treatment’. Because, the healthcare facilities in their nation are of substandard quality and costly”.
Supporting the fact, however, the local journalist-cum-observer, Majidur Sardar, who lives at Bolla village
under South Dianjpur district of IWBS maintained, “If you come to our (Indo-Bangla) IBTs like Balurghat,
Raiganj and its adjoining areas, which are situated under South Dinajpur District (administration); you will find

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out lots of Bangladeshis (who have every-now-and-then caught red-handed or sometimes have escaped from the
clutch of the BSFI), who are come to our areas for better medical treatment purposes. In a word, I can say, around
20% (percent) to 25% (percent) Bangladeshis are entered into India, specially, through this district for medical
reasons, apart from others intentions, per year”.
Apart from this, “Some places of Bangladesh have no opportunity of maternity homes or such other
institutions like that and so childing mother often dies premature death. Specially, the inhabitants of the villagers
of the said country have no other alternative but to take help of either medical compounder or untrained country
physician known as – Kabiraj or locally called Ojha (that is, exorcist) and also the quack, who (on failure to cure
serious diseases,) treat these unfortunate women and their children with country made medicines or empiric
cure”, affirmed Sabana Khatun, Muhammad Shaukat Mondol, Muhammad Anisur Rahaman, who’re living in the
villages like Chenchra, Hili (presently known as : Bagiar) and Haripukur (presently known as : Daudpur) of
Dianjpur district of Bangladesh (which are lied on the zero-line as well as on the opposite side villages – Ujjwal-
Part-I, Ujjwal-Part-II and Haripukur of IWBS’s South Dinajpur District) and come to India for their better
treatment or medical purposes.
“Indeed, in Bangladesh, day-to-day, population is growing at a high rate. Reason : the Government of
Bangladesh has no concrete effectual family planning scheme and the iron-grip of the Mullah (that is, Muslim
priest)s over the poor people, who have preached that family planning is against the dictates of the Muslim
religious scriptures.
Specially, the inhabitants of the village areas, especially, have no idea about ‘Family Planning’. The girls of
the villages get early married due to the threat of Bangladeshi ‘Mullah Culture’. It happens, when they are 12-
years-old or 13-yeatrs-old, which also compel them to attain early motherhood and premature death both”, stated
Muhammad Fazlul Rahman Sarkar, a resident of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh and the member of the
Bangladesh Astronomical Society (BAS).
This leads to grow up ‘superstition’ has grown everywhere in the country in the name of the control of
diseases. During rainy season or any other critical conditions, the patients, who live on especially India-
Bangladesh International Border areas bound to go to the international borders and request to the soldiers of the
BSFI for help, et cetera.
“There are no sufficient chemist-shop, dispensary and pharmacy, et cetera, which compel the
Bangladeshis to believe upon Village Kabiraj (that is, quack) occultist. Even, the absent of doctors, compounder,
hospitals, pharmacies, Primary Health Centre or Public Health Centre (PHC)s, et cetera or any type of treatment
in the village areas that situated in the riverine Char (that is, Island) areas cause untold harassments and as a
result of these, the patients have to suffer a lot and die premature death, when any epidemic breaks out there,
whether during flood or typhoon and other natural disasters and unnatural calamities”, revealed 20-years-old,
Apel Mollah (20) of International Riverine Border Village (IRBV) Khewarchar of Kurigram District of Bangladesh
as well as the Muhammad Mahidul Islam (19) and Muhammad Jainal Abedin (18), both of IRBVs Daikhowarchar
in the same district of Bangladesh.
To follow the go-wild situations, the decision of the Indian Central Government to set up an All India
Institute Of Medical Science (AIIMS)-like hospital at Raiganj, under North Dinajpur District (earlier known as –
East Dinajpur district) of IWBS has not only made for poor International Border Village People (IBVP)s of the
IBVs and International Border Town (IBT)s in the IWBS sector proud but also the neighbouring country
Bangladesh very delightful.
Though, this news has come as a relief to many Bangladeshi nationals, who often cross the international
border for specialised treatment in India than the Indian populaces, but, the Government of India should not only
look into the matter sincerely but also should take the tough action before the situation is gone out of hand in the
name of ‘Medical Tourism’!

(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)

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of Asia Times Online (Holdings) Limited, Hong Kong, China, Dated 17th March, 2010.
76. River People Struggle In India by Shib Shankar Chatterjee, Asia Times, (Newswire Organisation of
Asia Times Online (Holdings) Limited, Hong Kong, China, Dated 18th March, 2010.
77. Free Riding India's Medical Tourism by Shib Shankar Chatterjee, Asia Times, (Newswire
Organisation of Asia Times Online (Holdings) Limited, Hong Kong, China, Dated 25th March, 2010.
78. India, Bangladesh Kick Cross-border by Shib Shankar Chatterjee, Asia Times, (Newswire
Organisation of Asia Times Online (Holdings) Limited, Hong Kong, China, Dated 03rd July, 2010.
79. Ghosts Haunt India-Bangladesh Border by Shib Shankar Chatterjee, Asia Times, (Newswire
Organisation of Asia Times Online (Holdings) Limited, Hong Kong, China, Dated 01st August, 2010.
80. India’s Unheeded Enclaves Cry Out by Shib Shankar Chatterjee, Asia Times, (Newswire
Organisation of Asia Times Online (Holdings) Limited, Hong Kong, China, Dated 01st September,
2010.
81. Real-Life Turn To Veer Zara On The Border by Shib Shankar Chatterjee, The Statesman (North
East Page) dated 08th January, 2007,
82. The possession Of Bhogdanga by Shib Shankar Chatterjee, The Statesman (North East Page) dated
11th December, 2004,
83. OPEN FORUM – Tragedy Of The Chitmahals by Shib Shankar Chatterjee (The research for this
article was conducted under a fellowship of the National Media Exchange Programme of the National
Foundation for India) – The Statesman (North East Page) dated 20th September, 2003.
84. Worst Floods In 50 Years by Shib Shankar Chatterjee, The Statesman (North East Page) dated
19th July, 2003.

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85. Kalapani Mourns But Carries On by Shib Shankar Chatterjee, The Statesman (North East
Page) dated 03rd May, 2003.
86. Aids Travels By Lorry by Shib Shankar Chatterjee, The Statesman (North Bengal Plus Page) dated
18th August, 2000.
87. A Mela That Binds by Shib Shankar Chatterjee, The Statesman (North Bengal Extra Page) dated
06th March, 2010.
88. Pretext Most Foul by Shib Shankar Chatterjee, The Statesman (North Bengal Extra Page) dated
12th March, 2010.
89. Stranger than fiction by Shib Shankar Chatterjee, The Statesman (North Bengal Extra Page) dated
13th August, 2010.