Bangladesh, BSF coordination meeting to take off Monday

Shillong, Nov 4: The Border Security Force (BSF) and Bangladesh’s Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) will be meeting Monday at Sylhet to discuss issues relating to border management, strengthening, inter-border crime and insurgencies.

BSF official said that the coordination meeting will discuss,. “Bilateral issues of mutual concern, especially relating to trans-border crimes, activities of Indian insurgent groups in Bangladesh, joint survey of unfenced patches, and smuggling of fake Indian currency notes will be taken up by the BSF delegation.”

Bangladesh is likely to raise the issues of firing on Bangladeshi nationals by Indian nationals, smuggling of phensedyl and narcotics and other issues.

The BSF delegation will be led by Sudesh Kumar, IG BSF Meghalaya Frontier along with IG BSF Guwahati Frontier, IG BSF Silchar Frontier and IG BSF Tripura Frontier, and the sector deputy inspectors general of Meghalaya, Assam, Tripura and Mizoram and Cachar Frontiers.

Other members of the delegation will include staff officers from BSF headquarters, New Delhi, representative of the Narcotics Control Board (NCB) and Union ministry of home affairs.

The meeting will also focus on effective border management in the light of recently signed document on Co-ordinate Border Management Plan (CBMP).

The CBMP was signed in July 2011 in the presence of then Union home minister P Chidambaram and his Bangladesh counterpart Shahara Khatoon to enhance the quality of border management.-By Our Reporter

 

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