Integrated check post opposite Benapole port to open soon

The construction of an integrated checkpost is at its final stage at Petrapole, India opposite Benapole Land Port in Bangladesh to facilitate export-import.

Port sources said the Indian prime minister is expected to inaugurate the check post very soon.

A delegation of India's central government visited the spot yesterday afternoon. The team has asked the authorities concerned to finish the remaining work within 15 days, the sources added.

At a cost of Rs 172 crore, the check post is being constructed on 42 hectares of land with a capacity of parking 2,000 trucks, said SK Bosh, an official of Petrapole Immigration Police.

In October, a joint group of customs officials of the two countries signed an agreement to set up an integrated check post at Petrapole and another at Benapole to exchange all information of export-import. The work of the check post at Benapole is going on.