Over 1.70 lakh illegal foreigners have been detected in the State so far under provisions of the Assam Accord, while about 31,000 have been pushed back in the last 40 years, the Assembly was informed on Wednesday (February 18, 2026).
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Assam Accord Implementation Minister Atul Bora also stated that the fencing of the India-Bangladesh border in Assam has been nearly completed, except for a 4.35 km stretch objected to by the border guarding force of the adjoining country.
Mr. Bora was replying to a question by Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) legislator Ramendra Narayan Kalita on the Assam Accord, signed on August 15, 1985, at the end of a violent six-year-long movement against illegal Bangladeshis.
The pact stated, among other clauses, that the names of all foreigners coming to Assam on or after March 25, 1971, would be detected and deleted from the electoral rolls, with steps taken to deport them. The immigrants who came to the State between 1966 and 1971 will get Indian citizenship.
