Border guards of India and Pakistan during the Retreat ceremony at the Attari-Wagah border. Tribune file photo

Bijay Sankar Bora

Tribune News Service

Guwahati, September 15

The Border Security Force and the Border Guards of Bangladesh are all set to start a daily Retreat ceremony on the lines of the one at Attari-Wagah border in Punjab at Dawki in Meghalaya on the India-Bangladesh border.The ceremony was expected to begin before the next BSF Raising Day and a saluting platform had already been built, a senior official said. The Retreat would have already started but for some hiccups faced by the BGB, he said.Besides the saluting platform, the BSF is making arrangements for other utilities and amenities such as washrooms, resting sheds and canteen for the visitors/tourists who would converge on the border to witness the ceremony.Dawki has already been popular destination for domestic as well as foreign tourists visiting Meghalaya. Tourists used to cross the border point at Dawki from both the sides under the watchful eyes of the BSF and the BGB guards.“The BSF plans to flaunt picturesque destinations of Meghalaya and destinations in rest of the country embedded in the infrastructure that is being built at Dawki in view of the the Retreat ceremony, which will soon become a reality,” another official said. The ceremony will provide scope for the Meghalaya government to chip in to boost tourism in the state.