My point is that trade is natural in any neighborhood. There are some serious shenanigans going on the border, their nature and who's who isn't clear. Neither governments are clarifying over the issue for obvious reasons.
It is an interesting game.
The game goes like this:
There is a trader in Bangladesh, he has contact with an Indian trader. The have the border runners - one on the Indian side and one on the Bangladesh side. These runners carry the 'goods' to the border and the one who is to take it to the trader in his home country, crosses over and collects the goods and take it to his side of the border and to the receiving trader in his country.
Cows are the most commonly smuggled item, rice, sugar, urea, cycles, nylon saris and even country made pistols These are what goes to Bangladesh.
Diesel, fish, soaps and mobiles are smuggled into India from Bangladesh.
It is said the 50 kgs of urea bought for Rs 320 in India can fetch Rs 1000 (BDT), Goods even with a price difference of Rs 5 to Rs 10 are also smuggled.
This has been confirmed by Mr Mohamed Nurul Amin, the District Magistrate of Jessore. He also stated that every month Bangaldesh confiscates Rs 4 crore BDT (Rs 2.38 crore Indian) worth of goods.,
Child carrier are preferred since they are cheaper than adults to hire and the border guards mistake them as students on both sides as they carry their goods in school bags, except of course the cows.