A district magistrate-level meeting between Bangladesh and India was held at 'Abasor' rest house of the Water Development Board at Dalia under Dimla upazila of Nilphamari Saturday, officials said.
The meeting discussed in a cordial atmosphere various bilateral issues like border and enclave issues, 24-hour movement of Bangladeshis through the Tin Bigha Corridor, sharing of the Teesta water, transit through Chilahati-Haldibari route etc, they said.
The meeting is being considered as very important on the eve of Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Bangladesh in September and a similar return meeting will be held at Koochbihar in West Bengal by July 20.
Beginning at 11:00am, the meeting continued for five and a half hours till 4:30pm Saturday afternoon and the 5-member Indian delegation left at 5:30pm through the Burimari Land Port under Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat, the officials said.
Earlier, deputy commissioner and district magistrate of Lalmonirhat Mokhlesur Rahman accorded a warm reception to the Indian delegation at the BLP at 10:15am.
Led by Lalmonirhat magistrate, the 4-member Bangladesh included Abdul Mazid of Nilphamari, Tofazzal Hossain Mian of Panchagarh and Habibur Rahman of Kurigram.
Magistrate of Koochbihar Marakshi Mohapatra led the 5-member Indian delegation that included officials of Koochbehar district administration Mikha Ghosh, Sunil Kumar Chakroborty, Dipankar Roy Chakroborty and Pijush Kanti Goswami.
Source : New Age
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