The Border Guard Bangladesh is likely to raise different cross-border crime issues, including border killings, push-ins, and illegal intrusion, in the 56th director general-level border conference between the BGB and the Border Security Force of India, set to begin today at BGB headquarters in Dhaka.
The other issues likely to be raised in the conference include smuggling drugs, arms and ammunitions, the implementation of development activities within the 150 yards of the international border, water sharing, and the protection of embankments on trans-boundary rivers, according to BGB officials.
The issue of possible security risks along Bangladesh鈥檚 borders with the Indian state of Assam over allowing arms to the indigenous people would also be raised at the conference, they said.
On May 29, the Assam cabinet approved the special scheme to provide arms licenses to its original inhabitants and indigenous citizens living in the remote areas along the Bangladesh border.
BGB officials said that other issues raised by the Indian side would also be discussed in the conference.
A press release issued by the BGB on Monday said that a nine-member delegation of the BSF, led by its director general Daljit Singh Chaudhary, reached Dhaka Monday afternoon.
BGB director general Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui welcomed the Indian delegation at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, it said.
鈥楾he official talks between the two border forces will begin Tuesday morning,鈥� said the release.
The conference is scheduled to end on August 28.
The 55th DG-level conference of the two border forces was held in February 17鈥�20, 2025 in New Delhi, where the BGB urged its counterpart to bring the border killings to zero.
At least 34 Bangladeshis were killed by the BSF in the first year of the interim government鈥檚 tenure, while the figure was 30 in 2024 and 31 in 2023, according to rights group Ain O Salish Kendra data.
The BSF and the Indian Navy have pushed more than 2,000 people, including 173 Rohingyas and Indian nationals, into Bangladesh since May 7.
Among the Rohingyas pushed by the BSF, 50 are registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in India.
According to Bangladesh authorities, Bangladesh has 4,156 kilometres of border with India, of which some 180 kilometres fall on different water bodies and 79 kilometres on the Sunderbans.
