Shillong, Oct. 2: The Coordination Committee on International Border will organise a sit-in against the ongoing survey of the Dawki-Jaliakhola stretch in West Jaintia Hills district being undertaken to acquire land for fencing along the India-Bangladesh border.

A public meeting, convened by the CCIB at Dawki, about 100km from here, today resolved to stage the sit-in here on October 18 to oppose the survey on the lands of border residents.

The meeting also resolved to demand transfer of the deputy commissioner of West Jaintia Hills district, A.K. Kembhavi, accusing him of pushing the survey and imposing Section 186 of the IPC that warns people not to obstruct public servants from conducting surveys.

The members of the committee alleged that when the landowners, who were present during the survey, showed their documents, the survey team did not even listen to their explanations.

The CCIB, along with the residents, demanded that the survey be stopped until the boundary between India and Bangladesh is redefined.

The CCIB said the people living along the India-Bangladesh border in Khasi-Jaintia hills were not opposed to fencing but the government should properly realign the international border before acquiring land so that people do not lose their lands.

The border residents and the committee also maintained that the construction of fence 150 yards from the zero line cound not be accepted "since the boundary between India and Bangladesh in the Khasi and Jaintia regions was imaginary and not real boundary".