Agartala: 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 on Thursday. Chowdhury said he recently wrote a letter to 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. (PTI)