Export body asks Mamata's intervention for early resumption of border trade

The letter said that if there is no improvement on the ground immediately, many exporters will have to shut their offices and become bankrupt

The Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) has written to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, seeking her intervention for an early resumption of India-Bangladesh trade through land ports.

Despite the West Bengal government's order on May 11 for the resumption of all border trade, this has not restarted, and thousands of trucks laden with essential and perishable items are still stranded at land ports, the organisation's eastern regional chairman Sushil Patwari said in the letter.

The FIEO said this is hurting "the export-import community to a large extent, a sizeable chunk of which belongs to the MSME sector".

Exporters