AGARTALA, July 22 (TIWN): Four days long meeting has been started here in Tripura on Sunday among Border Security Force (BSF) & Border Guards Bangladesh (BGP). A 14 members team from Bangladesh has arrived here in Tripura via Akhaura Border on Sunday morning aiming to conduct a four days long meeting with various security issues. Addressing media here in the Akhaura Border, Regional Commandant of BGB Sarali Jahid Hassan said, “We have all border related issues here to discuss that includes smuggling of drugs, Killing of innocent people, human trafficking”. Being asked by media how is the relation between India and Bangladesh going on, he said, “Relation between India and Bangladesh is excellent now, indeed outstanding”.

Sector Commanders of BGB's Sarail and Chittagong regions and Inspectors General of BSF's three northeast India frontiers'-- Tripura, Meghalaya, and Mizoram-Cacher -- would attend the four-day meeting at Tripura frontier headquarters in Shalbagan, 12 km north of Agartala.

BSF's Tripura frontier Inspector General Hemant Kumar Lohia said that the two sides would fine-tune strategies to check crimes, smuggling, illegal movement and work to resolve disputes over territories.

Erection of border fencing along the remaining portion of India-Bangladesh territories, water sharing and cleanliness of drainage water would also be discussed. 

He said that after the first phase of the meeting, the BSF and BGB officials would go to Kolkata and meet the BSF's Special Director General (in Eastern Command) Nasir Kamal.

"Reduction of border crime along the borders could be possible through mutual understanding between the BSF and BGB," Lohia added.

Border crimes, disputed territories and better border coordination would be discussed at the bi-annual meeting of Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) beginning Sunday.

He said that the BGB has set up five border outposts (BOPs) along the unfenced Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) to maintain close vigilance alongside the mountainous border.

"With the help of BGB and other security forces of Bangladesh, terrorist activities in the North-East and their trans-border movement have been reduced," the BSF official said.

Four northeastern states, Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Assam share 1,880-km international border with Bangladesh.

Most parts of the 1,880-km frontiers are unfenced, mountainous and prone to crime.