What is special about Dahala Khagrabari?

a. It is world’s only third order enclave

b. It is a newly developed river island in Assam

c. It is a new barrage to be built on the Brahmaputra river.

d. None of the above

ANSWER: It is world’s only third order enclave

Explanation:

Dahala Khagrabari (#51) was an Indian enclave belonging to the District of Cooch Behar in the State of West Bengal. This was a piece of India within Bangladesh, within India, within Bangladesh.

It is also known as Indian counter-counter enclave.

It was the only third-order enclave in the world until 1 August 2015, when it was ceded to Bangladesh.

In practice, it was a parcel of land used for farming and was not actually inhabited.

It was one of the smallest - 7,000 square metres (1.7 acres) - of the Indo-Bangladesh enclaves, albeit not the smallest; the smallest being Panisala No. 79, an Indian enclave of 1,090 square metres (0.27 acres) in the Rangpur Division of Bangladesh.