Land acquisition work for theproposed border haat at Kathalia in Tripura's Sepahijala district will start from March 9, an official said on Thursday.An Indo-Bangla team on Wednesday held a meeting and agreed to allocate 1.3 acre of land each for the setting up of the border haat and that land acquisition work would commence from March 9, Additional District Magistrate, Sepahijala, Udayan Sinha said.The Indian side in the meeting was led by the District Magistrate of Sepahajala CK Jamatia while Jakir Hussain, the Deputy Commissioner of Comilla led the Bangladesh side, Sinha said.Both the countries had earlier decided to establish more border haats to reduce smuggling and trans-border crime.Tripura already has two border haats - Srinagar in South Tripura district and Kamalasagar in Sepahijala district.Border Haat, is a special market place located exactly on the Zero line between India and Bangladesh, where both Indian and Bangladeshi citizens of nearby area can visit and purchase the goods from vendors, who are also from both countries in equal numbers.
