Dhaka will widely discuss the border killing and push-in issues in the 57th four-day director general-level talks between the Border Guard Bangladesh and the Indian Border Security Force, which began on Monday in New Delhi, India.
In the inaugural day of the four-day summit, the two forces will select issues to be discussed in the next three days, according to BGB headquarters officials.
‘We usually discussed widely over border killings, but this time the push-in issue has become more important as the BSF has been making such attempts along with the longstanding border killings issue,’ a BGB HQ official said on request to be not named.
The border guards of the two neighbouring countries engaged in showdowns at many border points, with the BGB resisting BSF bids to push people into Bangladesh and set up barbed wire fence in 150 yards of the no-man’s-land in violation of the international law.
A 15-member delegation, led by BGB director general Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui, is attending the four-day programme that will end on June 11.
‘Today is the first day of the four-day talks. We will issue a press statement about the talks after the end on June 11,’ said BGB headquarters deputy director general (Media) Colonel Abul Hasnat Mohamamd Mahmud Azam.
Dhaka has also set major issues, including constructing barbed wire fence within 150 yards of the no-man’s land and resolving the ongoing development projects, installing optical fibre through the Tin-Bigha corridor—Dahagram-Patgram area, preventing human trafficking, arms and other smuggling, illegal flying of drones and helicopters in Bangladesh territory and the dispute over the demarcation of Muhurirchar near Parshuram in Feni and Belonia in India’s South Tripura.
Other issues include embankment protection of transboundary rivers, installing effluent treatment plants for releasing industrial wastes and draining water into four cross-border canals from Agartala in India to Akhaura, exchange of regional armed groups activities and the information and implementation of the Coordinated Border Management Plan for border management and resolving border disputes.
Dhaka will also discuss how to stop sharing negative propaganda about Bangladesh and bordering areas on Indian media and social media platforms.
According to Bangladesh authorities, Bangladesh shares 4,156-kilometre-long border with India, of which some 180 kilometres fall on different water bodies and 79 kilometres on the Sundarban.
The BGB-BSF DG-level conference is held twice annually, alternately once in New Delhi and once in Dhaka.
In the concluding day of the 56th BGB-BSF summit at the BGB Pilkhana headquarters in Dhaka on August 28, 2025, the BSF had repeated the promise that it would bring down the border killing to zero.
The BGB had also protested at the push-ins of people through the border by the BSF in that summit.
Despite repeated BSF pledges, the killing of Bangladeshis by the BSF and Indian citizens along the border in 2025 marked the highest level in the past five years -- with 34 killings.
At least eight Bangladeshis were killed by the BSF either in firing or by torture in the first five months of this year, of whom four were killed between January and April while May alone accounted for four killings, showing a sharp spike of border killings in recent times.
