Muhith assures Assam traders of Dhaka- Silchar direct rail link
Bangladesh Finance Minister AM Abdul Muhit has assured the businessmen from Assam of restoring the Karimganj-Mahisashan-Sahajpur railway line soon for improving border trade between Assam and Bangladesh.
The assurance was given when a group of representatives from the Karimganj Exporters-Importers Union met the Bangladesh finance minister at Sylhet recently, Assam's major English-language daily the Assam Tribune reported.
The chairman of Karimganj Development Authority and general secretary of the Karimganj Exporters-Importers Union urged the Bangladesh minister to consider a direct railway service between Silchar and Dhaka. Improved communication would increase the export-import opportunities between the northeastern states of India and Bangladesh.
The Bangladesh government has decided to restore train links with Tripura first and then expand the service to Karimganj, the finance minister disclosed. He also informed that the Bangladesh government is all set to start dredging of the Kushiara river which flows through Karimganj and then enters Bangladesh.
To boost international trade with Bangladesh, a trade centre at Sutarkandi along Karimganj-Bangladesh border has started functioning. The minister has been requested to set up an international trade centre on the Bangladesh side of the Karimganj border so that new avenues of export and import could be created.
He assured the delegation that his government would consider the requests.
He assured the delegation that his government would consider the requests.
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