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Border talks at Agartala today

BSF erects barbed wire fences on 200km border area

AGENCIES, Dhaka/ Kushtia
A high-level conference between Bangladesh Rifles and Indian Border Security Force begins today at Agartala in the wake of frequent clashes between the two forces at the frontier, according to an official announcement.
The four-day meeting would deal with a number of contentious issues including construction of barbed-wire fences as well as different establishments -- roads and bridges and pump houses -- on the Indian side within 150 yards of the no man's land.
"Firing on and killing of innocent and unarmed Bangladeshi people by the BSF and Indian citizens" is also expected to dominate the talks.
The other issues on the agenda are BSF camps on the border, security, obstruction of development works on the Bangladesh side by the BSF, and smuggling of arms and drugs.
Deputy Director General of BDR Brigadier General SM Golam Rabbani NDC, PSC will lead an eight-member Bangladesh delegation while IG of BSF Shri SC Srivastava a 14-member Indian team.
The BSF, meanwhile, fenced one-third border area of four districts with barbed wires while 98 percent works on 1/2km border area opposite to Singimari was complete.
India erected barbed fences as part of their first phase plan, which they had been trying to implement for the last 10 years.
Tension runs high on Kushtia-Jhenidah-Meherpur and Chuadanga borders over the erection of barbed wire fences and construction of roads.
Seven upazilas of the four districts -- Kushtia, Meherpur, Chuadanga and Jhenidah of northeastern part of the country -- are adjacent to Indian border. The BSF has more soldiers and vehicles than the BDR in those areas, BDR sources said.
Electrification of the barbed wire fences in several areas by the BSF was going on. They had taken initiatives to set up floodlights where it was not possible to erect barbed wire fences.
The BSF completed erection of barbed wire fences 40km along Jhenidah, 94km in Meherpur, 47km in Chuadanga and 18km in Kushtia.
At Lalmonirhat, the BSF set up 200 steel pillars to erect barbed wire fences within 150 yards of the noman's land, BSS reports quoting villagers.
(UNB/BDNEWS/BSS)