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Myanmar keen to set up border 'haat': India
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SME Times News Bureau | 11 May, 2017
Myanmar is keen to set up a border 'haat' (market) on its border with
India and an official team from the neighbouring country visited Kasba
market in Tripura to study its functioning, an Indian official said in Agartala on Wednesday.
The move comes in the wake of the successful operation of such markets along India's border with Bangladesh.
"A
five-member team led by Myanmar's Ministry of Labour Affairs Director
Soe Paing Myint and Indian officials visited on Tuesday the Kasba border
'haat' in western Tripura on the India-Bangladesh border," a Tripura
Industries and Commerce Department official said.
Four
northeastern Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh (520 km), Manipur (398
km), Nagaland (215 km) and Mizoram (510 km) share a 1,643-km unfenced
border with Myanmar.
At present, a trading point exists in Moreh along Myanmar territory in Chandel district of Manipur.
"The
Myanmarese officials indicated their government is keen to set up such
border markets to ensure the socio-economic development of people living
on both sides of the international border," the official added.
Indian
External Affairs Ministry's Under Secretary (Myanmar) Tavishi Behal,
and Union Commerce Ministry Under Secretaries Muthu Kumar and Usha
Sreenivasan accompanied the Myanmar officials on the visit.
The
visiting team was briefed by Kasba Border Haat Committee Chairman and
Sepahijala's Additional District Magistrate Manik Lal Das and other
officials about its functioning, besides security and financial aspects.
The
officials later visited the Akhaura Integrated Checkpost, the second
largest trading point after Benapole-Petrapole checkpost along the
India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal.
Border 'haats' have been
set up at Kalaichar-Baliamari and Balat-Dalora on the India-Bangladesh
border in Meghalaya, and at Kasba in western Tripura and Srinagar in
southern Tripura.
The border 'haats' are allowed to sell local
agricultural and horticultural products, spices, minor forest products
(excluding timber), wet and dry fish, dairy and poultry products,
cottage industry items, wooden furniture, handloom and handicraft items.
The 'haats' are set up within five km on each side of the international border.
Tripura
Industry and Commerce Department director V. G. Genner said the
Bangladesh and Indian governments have decided to set up more such
markets along areas in four northeastern states.
India shares a
1,880-km border with Bangladesh through Tripura (856 km), Meghalaya (443
km), Mizoram (318 km) and Assam (263 km).
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