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Burimari Land Port in Lalmonirhat lacks banking facility, causing suffering to people especially those who are travelling to neighbouring countries.
Travellers have to go to a bank at Burimari Bazar, 2km off the land port, to pay travel tax.
Kartik Chandra Karmakar, who recently went there from the capital’s Tantibazar to go to India, said when he was asked to pay travel tax, he found that there was no bank at the land port.
Later, the 65-year-old had to go to Burimari Bazar with the help of a local.
Faruk Hossain, an importer, said, “We have been urging the land port authorities to open up a bank so for a long time, but to no avail.”
Sub-inspector Anwar Hossain, in-charge of immigration police at the land port, said 600-700 passport holders travel to India through the border every day.
Samir Kanti Mazumder, a customs inspector, also stressed the need for banking facility at the port as it is the only one without one.
Asked, Ruhul Amin, assistant director of Land Port Authorities at Burimari, said a room in a two-storey office building was allotted for a bank following a letter sent by Janata Bank in 2019. But the bank authorities are yet to open it.
Md Maninruzzaman, manager at Burimari Bazar Branch, Janata Bank, said the opening is getting delayed due to some complications. But it will open soon.
(TDS)
