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New Delhi:<\/strong> Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday inaugurated a new passenger terminal and a cargo gate at the India-Bangladesh land border crossing located in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. The Petrapole crossing stands as the largest land port in South Asia and serves as a crucial conduit for trade and commerce between the two nations.<\/p>\n The Petrapole (India)-Benapole (Bangladesh) crossing is pivotal for both trade and passenger transit between the countries.<\/p>\n This facility, managed by the Land Ports Authority of India under the Ministry of Home Affairs, accounts for nearly 70 per cent of the land-based trade (by value) between India and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n Additionally, it ranks as India\u2019s eighth-largest international immigration port and oversees the annual movement of over 23.5 lakh passengers to and from Bangladesh.<\/p>\n The addition of the new passenger terminal at Petrapole is expected to significantly improve the infrastructure of the region and enhance the cross-border travel experience, according to the statement.<\/p>\n The terminal, with its sturdy build and modern technological systems, aims to ensure safety, efficiency, and comfort for all its users.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday inaugurated a new passenger terminal and a cargo gate at the India-Bangladesh land border crossing located in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. The Petrapole crossing stands as the largest land port in South Asia and serves as a crucial conduit for trade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/download-130.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50043,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50041\/revisions\/50043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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