Impact of Fence on Informal Trade and Livelihood of the Border Residents in Bangladesh: (An Empirical Study in Selected Areas of Panchagarh)

Bangladesh is one of the promising developing countries in the world. Just like other developing countries in this region, Bangladesh is also somehow depends on the super power of this region such as India. However, it also creates vulnerability only because of sharing the border by these two countries. As far as border is concerned, both the countries have a long border which has been separated by fence. Despite the fencing, both the border arena people have the connection among them. The fencing actually created few confinements which the governments are facing as well as the border related people. When there is border the illegal or informal trade has its presence. This informal trade puts a higher range of security threat in those areas. Several individuals have been killed because of unlawful exchange or intersection the outskirt wrongfully. The importance of illegal trade is exploding day by day and the steps need to be taken. This paper discusses the fencing, informal trade, formal trade, security aspects etc. To make this study user friendly for analysis, the original structure of this paper focuses on the impact of fencing on the daily livelihood of the border arena people, findings of the study and recommendations at the end of this work. We have also rationalized the information concerning the situation of border arena people nowadays.