As the clock struck one moment past midnight (1801 GMT Friday), a huge number of individuals who have been living without schools, centers or force for an era emitted in cheers of festivity at their recently discovered citizenship.
"We have been in dim for a long time," said Russel Khandaker, 20, as he hit the dancefloor with companions in the Dashiar Chhara enclave, which had a place with India however has now turned out to be a piece of Bangladesh.
"We've at long last seen the light," he told AFP.
An aggregate of 162 little islands of area - 111 in Bangladesh and 51 in India - were formally given over to the nations encompassing them on Saturday after Dhaka and New Delhi reached a fringe accord in June.
The area swap implies by most accounts 50,000 individuals who have been living without a state to call their own particular since 1947 will now turn out to be a piece of the nations that encompass their homes.
In Dashiar Chhara, a large number of individuals resisted rainstorm downpours to praise, walking through downpour doused sloppy streets singing the Bangladeshi national song of devotion and yelling: "My nation, your nation. Bangladesh! Bangladesh!"
Others lit 68 candles to stamp the end of "68 years of unending agony and outrage".
Sharifa Akter, 20, grasped a light and grinned. "I can now satisfy my fantasy to be a top government civil servant," she told AFP.
Maidul Islam, 18, said the handover signified "we're currently people with full human rights."
Authorities from Bangladesh and India are situated to lift their separate national banners over their new domains on Saturday morning in formal functions. (AFP)