India seeks 52 acre Bangladesh land for Agartala airport runway

[Homo Sapiens]

http://www.newagebd.net/article/81225/india-seeks-52-acre-bdesh-land-for-agartala-airport-runway

India seeks 52 acre B’desh land for Agartala airport runway
Staff Correspondent | Published: 00:38, Aug 10,2019

India has sought 52 acres of land from Bangladesh to expand the runway of Maharaja Bir Bikram airport in Agartala.

Indian online media outlet Live Mint, carrying an Indian private newswire IANS news, reported on August 7 that the second busiest airport in the northeast India was currently operating on 509 acres of land just along the Bangladesh border.

The report added that Airport Authority of India director Bipin Kant Seth said they had requested the Tripura government to take up with the central government the issue of requirement of the additional 52 acres of land from Bangladesh to expand the runway.

The report also stated that Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb confirmed that the state government had taken up the matter with the central government, which already submitted a proposal before the Bangladesh government.

‘The additional land sought falls at Hirapur village of Brahmanbaria district of eastern Bangladesh. But we would come to know about nature of the land only after carrying out a survey,’ the report quoted a senior Tripura transport department official as saying.

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‘By the end of 2019 or early 2020, Agartala airport would become the third international airport in the northeastern region after Guwahati and Imphal,’ said Tripura transport and tourism minister Pranajit Singha Roy, the report added.

‘Flights can then be operated between Agartala and Dhaka, as well as other Bangladeshi cities like Chittagong and Sylhet,’ he was quoted in the report added.

On August 1, New Age broke the story that India proposed to expand its Agartala airport into the Bangladesh territory in Brahmanbaria.

India, which already has obtained transit and transshipment facilities, has made the proposal at several meetings in the past one year.

The foreign ministry held a meeting in October 2018 with other relevant ministries and intelligence agencies to examine whether or how Bangladesh could share its land with India for the expansion of Agartala Airport in Tripura which was renamed as Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport on August 7, 2018.

The foreign secretary, Shahidul Haque, argued that Geneva International Airport falls partly in Switzerland and partly in France.

Tripura’s the then king Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur built the airport in 1942 where three airliners now run on an average 14 flights on the Agartala–Kolkata, Agartala–Guwahati and Agartala–Delhi routes.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

We can only consider if India is willing to do a land swap deal. Bangladesh should be compensated by 52 square kilometers of Indian land elsewhere for this highly valuable 52 acres from Bangladesh.

 

[UKBengali]

We can only consider if India is willing to do land swap deal. Bangladesh should be compensated by 52 square kilometers of Indian land elsewhere for this highly valuable 52 acres.

 

[Arthur]

They should just secede the state of Tripura to Bangladesh instead.

This land swaping is outright hassle. We would be happy if they keep this "swaping" business to themselves.

 

[bluesky]

1 Acre = 0.0040468564224 Square Kilometer. So, 52 acres equal 0.21 km^2 or (1,000m x 210m) of land on which India wants to extend its airport.

India has sought 52 acres of land from Bangladesh to expand the runway of Maharaja Bir Bikram airport in Agartala.

Indian online media outlet Live Mint, carrying an Indian private newswire IANS news, reported on August 7 that the second busiest airport in the northeast India was currently operating on 509 acres of land just along the Bangladesh border.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

1 Acre = 0.0040468564224 Square Kilometer. So, 52 acres equal 0.21 km^2 or (1,000m x 210m) of land on which India wants to extend its airport.

Foe easy memorization, 247 acres make a square kilometer.

 

[namefield_empty]

They should just secede the state of Tripura to Bangladesh instead.

This land swaping is outright hassle. We would be happy if they keep this "swaping" business to themselves.

First deal with your hardcore Hindu Bangladeshi CM of Tripura, if you come unscathed past his ilk then you have contend with the indigenous Twipra tribes. Only thing to be swapped will be your Chittagong for your dear lives.

 

[UKBengali]

First deal with your hardcore Hindu Bangladeshi CM of Tripura, if you come unscathed past his ilk then you have contend with the indigenous Twipra tribes. Only thing to be swapped will be your Chittagong for your dear lives.

Why as Tripura is a BD satellite state?

 

[namefield_empty]

Why as Tripura is a BD satellite state?

Or so you think! First deal with the motormouth CM, the indigenous tribes are all waiting to make your wish come true. Come try us..

 

[UKBengali]

Or so you think! First deal with the motormouth CM, the indigenous tribes are all waiting to make your wish come true. Come try us..

BD thinks of Tripura as it's little brother.
We want the best for it.

 

[Bilal9]

First deal with your hardcore Hindu Bangladeshi CM of Tripura, if you come unscathed past his ilk then you have contend with the indigenous Twipra tribes. Only thing to be swapped will be your Chittagong for your dear lives.

When Bangladeshi GDP rises past India's, they will all be begging to join Bangladesh. Landlocked and dependent on Bangladesh for every little shipment by sea.

Gotta eat man.

 

[UKBengali]

When Bangladeshi GDP rises past India's, they will all be begging to join Bangladesh. Landlocked and dependent on Bangladesh for every little shipment by sea.

Gotta eat man.

Per capita BD is around 20% higher and the gap is growing as BD keeps growing faster.
Tripura needs to join BD to be part of the BD growth story as Indian economy is failing,

 

[Leishangthem]

Per capita BD is around 20% higher and the gap is growing as BD keeps growing faster.
Tripura needs to join BD to be part of the BD growth story as the Indian economy is failing,

Even the Bangladeshi illegal aliens abhor any thought of associating with Bangladesh.

Who are you trying to fool ?
Try competing with Myanmar first ,before harping toward India ,for myanmar will far surpass BD .

 

[namefield_empty]

The even the Bangladeshi illegal aliens abhor any thought of associating with Bangladesh.

Who are you trying to fool ?
Try competing with myanmar first ,before harping toward India ,for myanmar will far surpass BD soon.

Now you see what we are up against, brother. We may have insignificant differences amongst ourselves but these alien vermins pose a grave danger to our motherland. We must fight this together one way or the other. Regards.

 

[Varunastra]

Per capita BD is around 20% higher and the gap is growing as BD keeps growing faster.
Tripura needs to join BD to be part of the BD growth story as Indian economy is failing,

Lol man no one in Tripura wants to part of bd. Lets just be good neighbors.