District officials hold meeting with B'desh counterparts

Officials of nine districts of Bangladesh and seven districts of West Bengal today gathered here for a border-level meeting on a host of issues affecting the two countries including cross-border militancy and others.
Deputy Magistrate of Chapai Nawabgunj district in Bangladesh Jahangir Kabir said that the meeting, held at Uttarkanya, the North Bengal secretariat, discussed at length several mutual issues.
"Curbing cross-border militancy, human trafficking and exchange of prisoners figured prominently in the 18-point agenda set for the meeting. We are looking forward to a positive outcome of the meeting," said Kabir.
Official sources at Uttarkanya said the issue of setting up of an immigration centre at Fulbari in Jalpaiguri, to ease travel woes of the people, was also discussed. Several divisional commissioners, DMs and SDOs of the seven North Bengal districts participated in the meeting.

"We are expecting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to visit Bangladesh in February on an official invite from us and looking forward to positive movement on the enclave issue and water sharing agreement between the two countries," Kabir said.