A Border Security Force (BSF) personnel stands guard at the India-Bangladesh border checkpost, at Fulbari near Siliguri. File.
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A high-level delegation of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) reached New Delhi on Monday (February 17, 2025) for the bi-annual Director General level talks with the Border Security Force (BSF).
The talks will take place between February 18 and 20 in which the BSF is likely to raise the attack on its personnel by armed miscreants. This is the first such meeting for talks after the Sheikh Hasina-led government was ousted from power in August 2024.
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The 55th Director General-level Border Coordination Conference between the two forces will be held at the BSF headquarters.
The Bangladeshi delegation may also call on some senior Union Home Ministry authorities, a BSF official said.
The Indian delegation is led by BSF Director General (DG) Daljit Singh Chaudhary while the visiting Bangladeshi team is headed by BGB DG Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui.
The BSF said in a statement last week that the conference is being organised to discuss border-related issues and improve coordination between the border guarding forces.
Discussions will be held on preventing attacks on BSF personnel and Indian civilians by Bangladesh-based miscreants/nationals as well as trans-border crimes, construction of single row fences, action against Indian insurgent groups in Bangladesh, issues related to border infrastructure, joint efforts for effective implementation of coordinated border management plan, confidence building measures and other issues, it had said.
The last edition of these bi-annual talks was held in Dhaka in March last year.
India and Bangladesh share a 4,096 km-long border spanning across five states — West Bengal (2,217 km), Tripura (856 km), Meghalaya (443 km), Assam (262 km) and Mizoram (318 km).
Published – February 17, 2025 09:17 pm IST