Bangladesh-India 4th border haat opens
Thursday, 11 June 2015
The fourth border haat (market) on the India-Bangladesh fronter opened on Thursday. The forth weekly frontier market or “haat” opened in Kasba upazila of Brahmanbaria district along the boundary line with India’s Tripura state. Earlier on June 6, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi inaugurated the Kamlasagar-Tarapur border haat or market. Tripura’s Sipahijala and Brahmanbaria districts administrations opened the ‘haat’ by switching on lights. Tripura state industries and commerce ministry secretary M Nagaraju chaired the opening function, attended by Sipahijala district magistrate Pradip Kumar Chakrabori, district sabhadhipati Fakhruddin Ahmed, additional district magistrate DK Chakma, Brahmanbaria’s deputy commissioner (DC) Dr Muhammad Mosharraf Hossain, additional magistrate Nazma Begum and Kasba upazila chairman Anisul Haque Bhuiyan, among others. A total of 60 shops, 30 from each country, were constructed on the Tripura-Bangladesh border. Thirty shopkeepers from each country will sell some enlisted goods. The market will remain open from 1:30pm to 5:30pm every Thursday, according to a news agency.