Aug 30, Colombo: Government of India has recently disclosed that it has no plan to take back the Kachchativu islet in the Indian Ocean from Sri Lanka.

According to media reports, The Indian Central Government has made this statement as an urgent response to the recent appeals made by Indian politicians M.K. Karunanidhi and Jayalalitha Jayaram.

However, it is also stressed that even though Government of Sri Lanka holds the ownership of this small islet in the Indian Ocean, Indian fishermen are given the right to fish next to this island according to the agreement signed between late Prime Ministers, Indira Gandhi and Sirimavo Bandaranaike.

Kachchativu is a tiny islet in the Palk Bay, about a mile long and less than half a mile wide that India transferred to Sri Lanka in 1974.