A transborder motorcade celebrating the signing of the BBIN (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal) motor vehicle agreement will be brought out on November 14.
The procession will travel four countries by crossing borders in accordance with the BBIN agreement before stopping on November 30.
The motorcade will commence its journey from the Indian state of Odisha and will end in Kolkata after travelling through Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh.
It will be arrive in Dhaka on November 28 from Tripura and will return to Kolkata on November 30, said Road Transport and Highways Division Deputy Secretary Sultana Yesmin yesterday after a meeting at the Secretariat.
“The vehicles will enter Bangladesh through Akhaura border and will leave through Benapole frontier after a two-day stopover in Dhaka,” she said.
Besides, the trial run of passenger vehicles among the BBIN countries will begin on October 29.
Initially, during the test run, transports will only journey from Chittagong to Thimphu via Dhaka-Hatikumrul-Bogra-Rangpur-Burimari, India’s Changrabandha-Siliguri-Jaigaon and Bhutan’s Phuentsholing, said a Road Transport and Highways Division official.
Chandan Kumar Dey, joint secretary of the Road Transport and Highways Division, told the Dhaka Tribune: “Even though it is the trial run for passenger vehicles, no ordinary passengers will actually be allowed to board vehicles. It is only for the BBIN officials and experts.”
The four nations have already completed a survey of the entire route of the motorcade.
The BBIN countries have finalised six transnational routes that freight as well as private transports will use from January next year.
