AGARTALA: The first multi-use integrated check post (ICP) along the India-Bangladesh border is all set to be opened at Akhaura in West Tripura on Sunday by the home ministers of both India and Bangladesh.
Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and his Bangladesh counterpart, Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, are likely to dedicate the ICP on the Indian side of the border to international users.
The ministry of home affairs (MHA) has built the Akhaura border terminal at a cost of Rs 73.5 crore over a period of two years to facilitate international traders and business users.
"Though Akhaura is the first multi-purpose ICP on the Bangladesh border, in India it is second after Attari in Punjab along the Pakistan border, First Integrated Check Post on Indo-Bangla Border which was inaugurated in April last year by the then home minister P Chidambaram," Tripura industries and commerce minister Jitendra Choudhury said on Friday.
Besides the home ministers of the two countries, Bangladesh shipping minister Shahjahan Khan, Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh Pankaj Saran and Tripura CM Manik Sarkar will also attend the inauguration ceremo.
"The ICP is equipped with all modern facilities such as goods loading and unloading zone, security watch tower, warehouse, export-import zone and all international services under a single roof along with an international standard passenger terminal," said Choudhury.
According to him, everyday 150-175 loaded trucks on an average are entering through the Akhaura check post with various export items, mostly clothes, fish, electronic items, stone chips and cement.
Till October this year, the volume of business between India and Bangladesh in all eight land customs stations (LCS) was recorded at Rs 105.62 crore, which was Rs 343.03 crore in the last fiscal.
Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and his Bangladesh counterpart, Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, are likely to dedicate the ICP on the Indian side of the border to international users.
"Though Akhaura is the first multi-purpose ICP on the Bangladesh border, in India it is second after Attari in Punjab along the Pakistan border, First Integrated Check Post on Indo-Bangla Border which was inaugurated in April last year by the then home minister P Chidambaram," Tripura industries and commerce minister Jitendra Choudhury said on Friday.
Besides the home ministers of the two countries, Bangladesh shipping minister Shahjahan Khan, Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh Pankaj Saran and Tripura CM Manik Sarkar will also attend the inauguration ceremo.
"The ICP is equipped with all modern facilities such as goods loading and unloading zone, security watch tower, warehouse, export-import zone and all international services under a single roof along with an international standard passenger terminal," said Choudhury.
According to him, everyday 150-175 loaded trucks on an average are entering through the Akhaura check post with various export items, mostly clothes, fish, electronic items, stone chips and cement.
Till October this year, the volume of business between India and Bangladesh in all eight land customs stations (LCS) was recorded at Rs 105.62 crore, which was Rs 343.03 crore in the last fiscal.
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