New Delhi: BSF (Border Security Force) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) today (Sep 28, 2004) began the bi-annual Director General-level talks in New Delhi to discuss coordinated patrolling, joint operations against camps of Northeast insurgents in Bangladesh and various other trans-border crimes.

During the three-day talks, the Indian side will furnish an updated list of 195 terrorist camps in Bangladesh and will seek to press the Bangladeshi side to shut these down and hand over 126 Northeast insurgents taking shelter there, BSF sources said.

Just before the talks, BDR Director General Maj Gen Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said the two sides would discuss modalities for coordinated patrolling, although he denied that India had proposed joint operations against terrorist camps in that country.

"We will also discuss issues like drug trafficking and terrorism," he said.

New Delhi has taken note of a rise in anti-India terrorist activities in Bangladesh and has prepared a fresh list of 195 training camps with exact locations which will be handed over to the BDR chief by BSF DG Ajai Raj Sharma.

Officials from Ministries of External Affairs and Home are also participating in the meeting.

BSF will convey India's concerns over the recent rise in smuggling of arms and infiltration of terrorists active in Jammu and Kashmir, the sources said.

The issue of pumping of fake Indian currency through the Indo-Bangla border will also be raised by the Indian side, besides smuggling of cigarettes and CFCC gas cylinders, they said.

Also on the agenda are other trans-border crimes like kidnapping for ransom in North East by terrorists based in Bangladesh, cattle lifting and trafficking of women, the sources said.

Continued illegal migration, which has been a major cause of concern in India, will also be part of the discussions.

The Indian side will also raise the issue of obstruction to erecting of fences along the border, they said.