India, Feb. 4 -- India is yet to fence 864.482 km of its 4,096.7km-long border with Bangladesh including 174.51 km where fencing was considered non-feasible, union minister of state for home affairs Nityanand Rai told the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

The challenges faced in completing the feasible stretches of fencing projects relate to land acquisition, objections by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), limited working season and land slide or marshy land, Rai said in a written reply to a question by Trinamool Congress's Uluberia MP Sajda Ahmed.

"It has been conveyed to the Government of Bangladesh that with regard to security measures at the border, including for fencing, India observes all protocols and agreements between the two governments ...