Dear Alochoks,
The latest news is that BD has opened up her territory to trasport heavy machinery to other parts of India. So in return, what favours has India done for us? Those India lovers can perhaps shed some light on this matter (or may be not)?
Is it because for the last so many years BD has been really bad neighbour and we need to make up for bad behaviour or is there something else? When it comes to India - it is all about profit and loss and nothing personal.
Showing kindness to our neighbour will not put food on the table for our poor and hungry. I am yet read or see any benefit that BD has got from any deal that has been done with India since this government has come to power.
Salam.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> Transit for Tripura Power Plant : Deal likely next week
>
> Bangladesh is likely to sign an agreement with India next week to
> allow the neighbouring country transit for a year and a half to carry
> power plant equipment to Tripura from West Bengal.
>
> The deal would not be done as part of the on-going talks on transit
> and transhipment between Bangladesh and three neighbouring nations --
> India, Nepal and Bhutan, said Shipping Secretary Abdul Mannan
> Howlader.
>
> The governments of the two countries would sign a Memorandum of
> Understanding (MoU) next week allowing India to have road and river
> transit without any charge, he said.
>
> India would not pay any fees for the transit in line with the agreed
> principle of the joint communiqué signed by the prime ministers of the
> two countries, said a high official at the shipping ministry.
>
> Bangladesh has granted India the waiver to transit fees only for
> transport of power plant machinery because of the friendly relations
> between the two nations, the secretary said.
>
> He said India would pay Bangladesh the estimated cost of Tk 25 crore
> for renovation and repair of roads and ports, and Bangladeshi
> contractors would do the work.
>
> "It was agreed that Ashuganj in Bangladesh and Shilghat in India shall
> be declared ports of call. IWTT [Inland Water Trade and Transit]
> protocol shall be amended through exchange of letters. A joint team
> will assess the improvement of the infrastructure and the cost for one
> time or longer-term transportation of ODC [Over Dimensional Cargo]
> from Ashuganj. India will make the necessary investment," reads the
> joint communiqué.
>
> A team led by a joint secretary of the shipping ministry has prepared
> a MoU, which now lies with the law ministry for vetting.
>
> The shipping secretary said the MoU could be signed on Monday or
> Tuesday after the vetting is done.
>
> A 726-megawatt power plant is under construction at Palatana in the
> Indian state of Tripura. Heavy equipment for the plant would be taken
> to Tripura from Kolkata by waterway and roads through Bangladesh
> territory.
>
> The consignments of equipment would enter Bangladesh through Raimongal
> River in India via Angtihara. From there those would be brought to
> Ashuganj through waterways via Barisal and Chandpur.
>
> They would be transported to Tripura by road from Ashuganj via Akhaura
> in Bangladesh.
>
> About 16 kilometres of 45-kilometre road from Ashuganj to Akhaura need
> to be repaired along with other roads for transport of the equipment,
> said a high-up of the shipping ministry.
>
> Roads and Highways Department has already appointed a Bangladeshi
> contractor for the job.
>
> Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority has also started
> renovating the Ashuganj river port.
>
> http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=163828
>
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