AGARTALA, Nov 18 (TIWN): The long disputed Muhuri Char issue to be ended now as after a successful meeting held in Tripura, another meeting to be kick off at Dhaka on Friday, TIWN reported.

Tripura PWD has not been yet informed about the Muhuri Char sealing and thus it’s not clear whether Tripura Govt’s proposal has been accepted or not. Talking to Dipak Das, PWD Chief Engineer, he told TIWN that he doesn’t know about the outcome yet.

However, the whole meeting was lead by the central govt officials, TIWN source informed Agartala Office.

The unstatic river bank is another problem in sealing, source said. 

In an attempt to complete the border fencing works by 2017, Indo-Bangla joint meeting held on Thursday at Belonia Circuit house.

 In this regard the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) also held a meeting with Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar at Civil Secretariat on Wednesday.

Tripura PWD Minister Badal Choudhury had demanded for re-demarcation of Muhuri Char which delayed the fencing work at South Tripura.

 BGB  Regional Director Brigadier General Mohammad Habibul Karim on July 21 during his visit in Tripura said, “If you don’t do border-fencing alone, we will do jointly but after the partisan the security will be more strong”.

Source said that ‘Modi is keen to solve Muhuri River Dispute with Bangladesh and due to this only Sripriya Ranganathan , Joint Secretary Ministry of affairs , GOI will visit Tripura on 16th & 17th Nov in connection with the India-Bangladesh Land Voundary Agreement of 1974 and also visit Muhuri Chor sector of South Tripura’.

Source further said, the enclaves were exchanged between the two countries with effect from August 1, 2015 under the Mujib-Indira Land Boundary Agreement, bringing an end to the miseries of the people, who lived a confined life for 68 years there.The agreement was now going to be implemented in its entirety with the settlement of the Muhuri Char, Asaduzzaman said.