Delhi Okays Integrated Check Posts (ICPs) At Sutarkandi

NEW DELHI: The Centre has approved setting up of the Integrated Check Posts (ICPs) at Sutarkandi in Assam (Bangladesh Border) even as the ICP at Dawki along Meghalaya (Bangladesh border) which is under construction will be made operational at the earliest.

Disclosing this in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said that further, “in principle” approval has been granted for the setting up Integrated Check Posts at 10 other locations including Ghojadanga, West Bengal (Bangladesh border); Changrabandha, West Bengal (Bangladesh border); Fulbari, West Bengal (Bangladesh border); Jaigaon, West Bengal (Bhutan border); Panitanki, West Bengal, (Nepal border); Mahadipur, West Bengal (Bangladesh border); Hili, West Bengal (Bangladesh border); Banbasa, Uttarakhand (Nepal border); Bhitamore, Bihar (Nepal border); and Kawrpuichhuah, Mizoram (Bangladesh border).

At present two ICPs are operational along the India-Bangladesh border.

Rijiju said that the Agartala ICP along the Tripura-Bangladesh border and the Petrapole ICP along the West Bengal-Bangladesh border are under operational.

Also Read: MEGHALAYA NEWS