Tripura Industries and Commerce Minister Jitendra Chaudhury has urged the Union Commerce Ministry to dispatch funds to develop four Land Customs Stations (LCS) of the state.
A proposal regarding this was put forward to the ministry on December 19 last year seeking sanction of funds, but the ministry was yet to respond, Chowdhury told reporters here today.
Chowdhury said he recently wrote a letter to Union Commerce Minister Anand Sharma seeking his intervention for sanction of funds for the LCSs.
He said the bulk of border trade with Bangladesh along the Tripura frontiers largely increased in the past few months.
"During the last four years, the trade volume increased five-fold and now it stands at over Rs 250 crore per annum and the state holds much more potential of border trade," he said.
The state currently has eight notified LCSs at Agartala, Srimantapur (Sipahijala district), Muhurighat, Sabroomin (South Tripura), Khowaighat (West Tripura), Dhalaighat, Manughat (Dhalai) and Old Ragnabazaar (North Tripura).
The Agartala LCS was upgraded to Integrated Check Post in 2013 which is the second of its kind across the country after Attari in Punjab.
Official border trade between India and Bangladesh started along the Tripura frontiers in 1995.
