New Delhi: The 57th Director General-level Border Coordination Conference between India’s Border Security Force and Bangladesh’s border guarding force will be held in New Delhi from 8th June to 11th June, with discussions expected to focus on cross-border crimes, attacks on security personnel, border fencing and insurgency-related concerns.
The conference will be hosted by the Border Security Force at its headquarters in New Delhi’s CGO Complex. The Indian delegation will be led by BSF Director General Praveen Kumar, while the Bangladesh delegation will be headed by Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui, Director General of Border Guard Bangladesh.
According to the BSF officials, the meeting aims to strengthen coordination between the two border guarding forces and address operational and administrative issues along the India-Bangladesh border.
Key agenda items include prevention of assaults on BSF personnel and Indian civilians by Bangladeshi nationals, curbing trans-border crimes, preventing illegal entry of Bangladeshi criminals into India, incidents involving fence breaches, and progress on border fencing projects.
The two sides are also expected to discuss action against Indian insurgent groups operating from Bangladeshi territory, border infrastructure issues and confidence-building measures aimed at improving coordination between the neighbouring countries’ border forces.
The previous edition of the conference was held in Dhaka between 25th August and 28th August 2025. The dialogue mechanism has existed since 1975 and, after an agreement reached during India-Bangladesh Home Secretary-level discussions in 1993, the meetings became a biannual exercise, alternating between India and Bangladesh.
The BSF said the conference remains part of a long-standing institutional mechanism intended to resolve border-related concerns through sustained dialogue and coordination between the two forces.
