Siliguri, Oct. 17: Administrative officials from India and Bhutan will discuss internal security and the feasibility of opening new roads between the two neighbouring countries at a two-day meeting in Siliguri beginning tomorrow.

Jalpaiguri divisional commissioner Balbir Ram will lead the Indian side. The district magistrates and superintendents of police of Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar will also attend the meet.

A 15-member Bhutan team, comprising senior officials of Chhukha, Samchi, Ha and Sarpang districts, arrived here this evening.

?The meeting will focus on the possibility of fresh threats posed by the KLO-Ulfa-NDFB combine inside Bhutan and across north Bengal. Officials will also discuss aspects of inputs, which suggest that Indian militant factions are re-grouping in the kingdom with help from Maoist guerrillas in Nepal,? said an official who will attend the meeting.

Militants of the KLO-Ulfa-NDFB combine were flushed out by the Royal Bhutan Army in December last year, an action that has been recognised by inviting the King of Bhutan as the chief guest at the next Republic Day parade.

?We will also discuss the possibility of carving out new road routes connecting the two countries,? said another senior official.

Vehicles from Bhutan now enter India mainly through the Phuentsholing gate. The Indian authorities have already entrusted the Sashastra Suraksha Bal to provide cover to Bhutanese vehicles entering India through north Bengal.

Sources quoted their Bhutanese counterparts as saying that the land-locked country sought a concrete boundary at some points on the international border.