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[name] => Tongi Industrial Area
[post_id] => 3543
[post_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/bn/places/tongi-industrial-area/
[thumb_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Tongi-Industrial-Area-300x146.jpg
[post_content] => Tongi Industrial Area, a township in Gazipur, Bangladesh, one of the nearby town of Savar, features a BSCIC industrial area, which produces BDT 1500 crore of industrial products annually and marks the northern border of Dhaka, most of the factory is located in Tongi area. It is one of the biggest Industrial areas in Northern Bangladesh.
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[name] => Belonia
[post_id] => 5625
[post_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/bn/places/belonia/
[thumb_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Belonia-by-KUSACHI-Yasuaki-4-300x225.jpg
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Belonia is marked as the zero point at the international border between India and Bangladesh at Baspadua in Belonia, south Tripura district. A barbed wire fence is being built. The area is called Uttar Ghutuma, in Feni district, Bangladesh. Cross-border movement is routine, marriages ignoring the geographical landscape defined by maps are quite common and friendships still hold true between the two people.
A BSF border post is located opposite the spacious Government home with its jackfruit, mango and coconut trees. BSF patrols were guarding the place with the Muhuri river and Muhuri char (wasteland) setting apart the two countries.
At one time, the wasteland fed by the Muhuri River grew vegetables and sugarcane but that is over. It is a sensitive spot with both countries claiming Muhuri Char.
Trains run between India and Bangladesh could help open markets and business options could wear out the habit of political dislike. It is confirmed by a morning visit to the Akhaura border with Bangladesh, a few minutes run down the Akhaura-Agartala road.
At about 7 a.m., tempos loaded with fish drive in to Akhaura from Bangladesh, deposit their wares and turn away. Business is brisk and loud with duty-free dry fish being sold at $2 per kg for the famed Hilsa and 60 cents per kg for small fish. All other items imported into India carry an import duty ranging between 15 per cent and 30 per cent.
Over the last 20 years, the Tripura Government has been pushing New Delhi to open up trade and rail lines with Bangladesh but talks have remained talks; a waste of breath and words. The lines of Marathi poetess Amita Kokate came to mind: "Like the texture/of the canvas/is our relation/though the weaves/Are tightly interlaced, crisscross/It hurts/our fingers."
The Jet Airways flight from Kolkata to Agartala is about 30 minutes as one flies over Bangladesh at a height of 25,000 ft.; that is the lone viable link as the alternative by road going round to Guwahati and then on to Agartala can take more than 20 hours. Most do not even try it out. Sometimes one felt the State has been abandoned by all.
At least for bankers the State and its majority farming community do not exist. In a chat, Dr G.S.G. Ayyangar, Secretary, Agriculture and Rural Development, Tripura Government, revealed the credit-deposit ratio was just 23 per cent. Banks were not lending and rural bank branches are rare in Tripura.
The Government has taken up the issue with the RBI and by now has become a dead Government document. Most farmers get some grants from the Center and the State with the rest brought in from outside sources. It is doubtful if the banking system has thought of routing funds to tribal practicing jhum in community-held land. Common rights on land, practiced over centuries, cannot easily be unwound. As for IT, there is little to show.
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[name] => {:en}Boro Bongram{:}{:bn}বড় বনগ্রাম{:}
[post_id] => 3038
[post_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/bn/places/boro-bongram/
[thumb_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/offroadbangladeshlogo2-300x178.png
[post_content] => {:en}
Boro Bongram, it's a new area, emerging alongside Airport road & the city also growing towards Noahata airport area. The mango crossing with RAKUB, RDA head office, new bus terminal with a commercial zone are situated here.
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বড় বনগ্রাম (জায়গাটি বিমান বন্দরের কাছে) মূল রাজশাহী শহরে নওহাটার কাছে অবস্থিত। এলাকাটিকে নতুনভাবে গড়ে তোলা হয়েছে। এখানে রয়েছে আম চত্বর, রাকুব আরডিএ সদর দফতর, নতুন বাস টার্মিনাল এবং বাণিজ্যিক এলাকা।
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[post_id] => 5172
[post_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/bn/places/bijoypur-border-netrokona/
[thumb_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/bijoypur-border-camp-Anowar-Hossain1-300x225.jpg
[post_content] => {:en}
Bijoypur Border, Netrokona (বিজয়পুর বিডিআর ক্যাম্প) is located near at the India–Bangladesh (ভারত - বাংলাদেশ) border, at Kulagora Upazila (কুলাগরা উপজেলা) of Durgapur Thana (দুর্গাপুর থানা). This camp is beside the tranquil river Shomeswari (সোমেশ্বরী). The ambient atmosphere of that area is really enthralling. Anyone can enjoy the outline hills from Indian portion from there. If you are lucky, you can see the floating clouds over the hills too. It is the season of winter, but I guess rainy season will be the best to visit that place.
Troops from BGB camp will not allow you to go beyond after that area. But if you have time, you can bypass the camp using far side route, and go further near to the border. We didn't have enough time, otherwise I might have taken that chance.
It will be a nice experience for you to ride on the boat beside the camp. Basically there is no such boats are available. You'll find few boats are crawling over the river for caring the collected coal from the river. You can hire few of those (if you can convince those reluctant boatmen). The exact GPS coordinate of Bijoypur BGB camp is (25°10'42.58"N, 90°39'23.78"E).
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নেত্রকোনা জেলার কুলাগরা উপজেলার দুর্গাপুর থানার বাংলাদেশ-ভারত সীমান্তের কাছে শান্ত নদী সোমেশ্বরীর পাশে বিজয়পুর বিজিবি ক্যাম্প অবস্থিত। এখানকার পারিপার্শ্বিক পরিবেশ এক কথায় মনোমুগ্ধকর। এখান থেকে আপনি ভারতীয় অংশে অবস্থিত পাহাড়গুলোকে দেখতে পাবেন এবং ভাগ্য সুপ্রসন্ন হলে পাহাড়ের উপর ভাসমান মেঘও চোখে পড়তে পারে। বর্ষাকাল এখানে বেড়াতে আসার সর্বশ্রেষ্ঠ সময়।
ক্যাম্পে অবস্থানরত বিজিবি সদস্যরা আপনাকে ক্যাম্পের নির্ধারিত সীমানার বাইরে যেতে দেবে না তবে ক্যাম্পটিকে এড়িয়ে আরও পথ ঘুরে আপনি সীমান্তের কাছাকাছি যেতে পারবেন।
ক্যাম্পের পাশেই অবস্থিত নদীতে নৌকা ভ্রমন করার অভিজ্ঞতা অর্জন করতে পারেন। নৌকা ভ্রমনের জন্য আলাদা কোন নৌকা না থাকলেও নদী থেকে কয়লা সংগ্রহকারী নৌকায় আপনি ভ্রমন করতে পারেন। অবশ্য এজন্য আপনাকে নৌকার মাঝিকে সন্তুষ্ট করতে হবে। বিজয়পুর বিজিবি ক্যাম্পের জিপিএস অবস্থান (২৫°১০'৪২.৫৮"উ, ৯০°৩৯'২৩.৭৮"পু).
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