Lalmonirhat, Oct 19 (bdnews24.com) — Prime minister Sheikh Hasina is visiting the district to officially announce the opening of the Tin Bigha corridor connecting Dahagram-Angorpota enclaves for 24 hours a day.
Her protocol officer Proloy Kumar Joarder said that she would start for Lalmonirhat via Syedpur from Dhaka in the morning on Wednesday.
She is scheduled to visit the Tin Bigha Corridor afterwards. Indian home minister P Chidambaram is likely to meet her there.
The prime minister would inaugurate Union Parishad complex, a 10-seat hospital and Dahagram-Angorpota power distribution line.
She is likely to address a public meeting at Patgram Government College ground.
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The corridor gate, which had always been shut after 6pm, despite the 1974 treaty between India and Bangladesh, was opened at 6pm on Sep8 following the signing of a protocol during Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Dhaka.
The protocol to the 'Agreement Concerning the Demarcation between India and Bangladesh and Related Matters, signed on Sep 6 seeks to address all outstanding land boundary disputes for a final solution.
The corridor has so far been kept open from morning until evening to visit or come out of the enclaves falling under Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat, and it would be under the vigil of Indian security men.
Bangladesh was granted the route in the 1974 Indira Gandhi-Sheikh Mujibur Rahman treaty. But the authority remained with India though Bangladesh in exchange for the enclaves had given South Berubari area.
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