Shillong, Dec 15 NNN : The border co-ordination meeting between the Inspector General of Border Security Force (BSF) and Deputy Director General of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) concluded in Shillong on Thursday after dwelling at length on the issues of common concerns such as movement of insurgents, human trafficking, drugs, fake currency, arms smuggling which need greater amount of cooperation and understanding to make the life of border population secure.
The BGB delegation led by Brig Gen Abu Sayeed Khan, ndc, psc, Deputy Director General of Border Guard Bangladesh alongwith Sector Commanders of Sylhet, Rangamati, Comilla, Khagrachari and Mymensingh, four staff officers of BGB and two representatives from Ministry Of Home Affairs and one representative of Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh arrived at Shillong on December 12. The BSF delegation was led by S.K. Mishra, IG BSF alongwith R. K Chaudhari, IG BSF Guwahati Ftr, M. L. Batham, IG BSF Meghalaya & Silchar Ftr and Shri P.C. Meena, IG BSF Tripura Ftr and Sector DIsG of Meghalaya, Assam, Tripura, Mizoram & Cachar Frontiers, staffs officer from BSF New Delhi and representative of NCB.
During the meeting, it was advocated that both the forces should pool out resources together and combined efforts to put and end to all these menaces with a firm hand. IG BSF stressed for early implementation of Coordinated Border Management Plan to bring paradigm change in border management for both border guarding forces and make the life of border population peaceful and secure.
It then agreed for the joint efforts for prevention of smuggling of FICN and illegal migration/ infiltration by Bangladeshi nationals into India.
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