SYLHET, Oct 14: Establishment of a new customs station on Dolura on the Sylhet-Meghalaya frontier is being delayed on the ground of complexities over land selection and its approval by the concerned department for unknown reasons.
Things remained in balance and got no major development for the last 22 months even, sources alleged.
However, an official in the Sunamganj district administration said land approval had been delayed due to lack of coordination between the concerned departments like land, revenue, customs and a local representative.
It would be completed in weeks, as the field survey had been done, he added.
The cost for the proposed 10 acre government owned land may be Tk 24.8 million, the official added, the detail survey report would soon be sent to the concerned authority in a week.
The Customs department earlier had written for acquiring 15 acres of land for the said LC Station on the Dolura border in February 2017. But the process didn't proceed much locally as yet.
It may be stated here in 1999, the authority first decided for setting an LC Station on experimental basis initially for a year, but things couldn't be done due to absence of the 2.5 km connecting road on the frontier.
A group of Indian traders joined a view exchange meeting with Bangladeshi traders on February 17, last year on Dolura area in presence of the then NBR chairman Md Noibur Rahman, (now principal secretary to the PM) who had stressed on the issue and assured of the setting of LC station.
Presently the Principal Secretary at a separate meeting at the Sunamganj Deputy Commissioner's office weeks ago also asked the officials for expediting the matter.
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