Second border <i>haat</i>to open Apr 24
The country's second border haat at Dorlura in Sunamganj district waits inauguration on April 24.Photo: STAR
The country's second border haat (market) comprising 50 sheds on a 70-square metre site at Dolura in Sunamganj district is set to be inaugurated on April 24. Items like fish, chicken, juice, betel leaf and household materials will be sold there two days a week and a buyer will be allowed to shop for 50 dollars or local currencies equivalent to it, officials said. The sheds will be equally distributed between Bangladeshis and Indians. Set on zero line, attached to the border pillar 1212 along the Meghalayan border, the market will be monitored by the customs officials from both sides. Well-set barbed wire fence has also been raised around the site, near Dolura Muktijuddha Smriti Soudha and 100 yards from the Indian Border Security Force's camp atop a hill on the other side. "We have asked the Local Government Engineering Department to construct a new road to the haat and a culvert over the narrow canal to ease connectivity to the market that would benefit people of at least 10 nearby villages," said Sunamganj Deputy Commissioner Md Yamin Chowdhury. On Wednesday last, Commanding Officer of Border Guard Bangladesh 8 Battalion, Sunamganj, Lt Col Masudul Haque, and his counterpart from the Indian Border Security Force Commandant AK Singh of 83 Battalion and Commandant Komoljith Singh of 44 Battalion held a meeting where they discussed measures to curb smuggling on the border haat and steps for maintaining law and order in the area. Earlier, the country's first border haat on Kurigram border was opened in July last year.
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