BGB-BSF DG-level confce starts today
Monday, 3 September 2018
Director Generals (DGs) of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and India's Border Security Force (BSF) will join a conference from today in New Delhi, reports BSS.
BGB DG Major General Md Shafeenul Islam is leading a 14-member delegation, including representatives from Prime Minister's Office, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
BSF DG K K Sharma, IPS, will lead a 20-member Indian delegation including BSF senior officials including inspector general of different BSF frontiers, representatives from Indian home and foreign ministries.
Curtain of the conference will be raised at 4pm (Indian time) at Chawla Camp of BSF in New Delhi.
The agendas of the conference to be held from September 3 to 8 include shooting at unarmed Bangladeshi civilians along the border, smuggling of arms, ammunitions, drugs, detention of Bangladeshis, infiltration into Bangladesh, construction of audience gallery on both sides of the border to witness joint retreat ceremony, increasing border of crime free zone, protection of banks of rivers along the border and taking necessary steps to further increase mutual trust.