BRAHMANBARIA: Bangladesh and India on Thursday opened a forth weekly border market or “haat”, this time on the frontier of Kasba upazila of Brahmanbaria district along the boundary line with India’s Tripura state.

Earlier on June 6, Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina and her India 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 Chakrabari, district sabhadhipati Fakhruddin Ahmed, additional district magistrate DK Chakma, Brahmanbaria deputy commissioner (DC) Dr Muhammad Mosharraf Hossain, additional magistrate Nazma Begum and Kasba upazila chairman Anisul Haque Bhuiyan, among others.

Welcoming the initiative, the speakers said that the ‘haat’ will strengthen the brotherly relations between the two nations.

However, a total of 60 shops, 30 from each country, were constructed on the frontier. Thirty shopkeepers from each country will sell some enlisted goods.

The market will be open from 1:30pm to 5:30pm every Thursday.

BDST: 1913 HRS, JUN 11, 2015
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