Smuggled electronic goods flood markets in N dists
Our Correspondent, Nilphamari
On the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr, Chinese electronic goods along with Indian ones are being smuggled into the country through different border points in Nilphamari, depriving the government of huge amounts of revenue. These are being sold in Syedpur and sent to different parts of the country. Chinese goods like VCD, colour TV, tape recorder, audi and vedio cassette, walkman, table fan, vedio camera, electronic wrist watch, tube lights and calculators have a good market in the country because these are cheaper, it was gathered from some people involved in the illegal trade. These goods are brought through Nepal and India by organised syndicates of smugglers in the two countries and from Bangladesh. A big market of smuggles Chinese goods has developed at Dolabari in Nepal near the India-Nepal border. It is known as China market. Bangladeshi smugglers cross the India-Bangladesh border through Chilahati in Domar upazila and reach nearby Holdibari in Kuch Bihar district in West Bengal, India. From there they go to Shiliguri town in India and then o cross the India-Nepal border to go to Dolabari. It takes only two hours to go to Dolabari from Chilahati. As Indian citizens do need any passport to go to Nepal, so Bangladeshi smugglers from Syedpur with the help of their Indian partners go to Nepal posing as Indian citizen. The goods are smuggled to Syedpur through Chilahati, Vaganpur, Hili and Burimari border points and kept in big godowns in the small town. Syedpur has good a road network Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi and other places. Talking to this correspondent, some traders in Nilphamari said their imported goods can not compete with cheaper Chinese smuggled goods.
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