AGARTALA, January 8 (TIWN): Bangladesh DC delegation led by the District Magistrate of Feni have arrived in Tripura to attend the DC level meeting, here today. District Magistrate of Sepahijala, Prashant Kumar Goyel,talking to TIWN today over telephone, informed that Bangladesh team arrived in noon and the agenda of meeting will be on militancy, smuggling, border fencing, infiltration and other co-ordination issues like opening of border haat, bilateral trade, import and export, transport, Feni bridge etc. The other member of the delegation team consists of Mohammed Humayun Kabir Khanadalay, DC of Comilla, Chitagong, Khagragachi, and Rangamati respectively. The primary agenda of the meeting will be based on the militancy and insurgency issues. Speaking on the extremist issue, Mr. Goyel further informed that extremists’ threat has started rising in the sector of Dhalai district. However, security forces had led birds eye on the activities of the extremists.

It is to be mentioned here that ahead of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) poll slated to be held this year, extremists’ activities have started surfacing again in Tripura, reminding the militant violence and deadly ethnic conflicts and destruction of peaceful co-existence between tribal and non-tribal people in 2000, with abduction of villagers and construction workers engaged in border fencing work in demand of subscriptions. The militancy group has gunned down two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel and one construction worker and abducted four people in the last few months.

The terrorist outfits of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Manipur and Nagaland have set up their camps and hideouts in different parts of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) (in southeast Bangladesh) and Moulavibazar and Sylhet districts (under Sylhet division in northeastern Bangladesh). Out of the 32 camps, 21 ultras from Tripura having all the hideouts, mostly belonging to banned outfits National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), he added. Most of these hideouts were concentrated at Chittagong Hill Track (CHT) in the neighboring country Bangladesh.