September 29: Birgunj Customs Office – the country's biggest customs point – has collected a total Rs 40.6 billion in revenue so far since the current fiscal year started on July 16.    
The revenue collection is 20.5 percent of the total target of Rs 198.1 billion to be collected in the current FY, said customs office officer Harihar Poudel.    
 Petroleum products, cooking gas, vehicles parts and food items, readymade clothes and raw materials for industries have been imported from India through the transit point.

On a daily basis, the customs point sees an average of  800 trucks arriving with goods and around 100 leaving the checkpoint with goods bound for foreign countries. -- RSS