New Delhi [India], September 4 (ANI): Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is ready to start her four-day go to to India from Monday and can concentrate on connectivity, vitality and meals safety in addition to commerce and funding alternatives.
Both Bangladesh and India share loads of similarities when it comes to tradition, economics, language, political historical past, and faith. Despite the truth that India was instrumental in Bangladesh’s independence, the connection between New Delhi and Dhaka has by no means been particularly heat or freed from squabbles.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to Dhaka gave a lift to the connection between each international locations. In current years, a number of offers have been reached between the international locations in each the diplomatic and financial arenas.
Under the visionary management of Prime Ministers Modi and Sheikh Hasina India and Bangladesh have attained tangible ends in a number of areas together with settling land and maritime boundary demarcation, safety, connectivity, improvement cooperation, cultural trade, energy and vitality, commerce and commerce, blue economic system, defence.
According to experiences, Bangladesh has been rising by leaps and bounds not too long ago.
Last yr, the United Nations determined to strike the South Asian economic system off its listing of the world’s least developed nations. Notably, each the 2 international locations are intently collaborating in each sector, from safety and border administration to mutually helpful commerce and funding flows, enhanced bilateral and sub-regional multimodal connectivity, better energy and vitality cooperation, developmental help and capability constructing exchanges, cultural and nearer people-to-people ties.
Sheikh Hasina’s upcoming go to assumes significance within the backdrop of turbulent months in current occasions which have disrupted the inexperienced shoots of post-Covid-19 financial restoration within the South Asian Region marked by episodes of saturating political and financial disaster, apart from episodes of army adventurism and terrorism.
The bilateral ties between India and Bangladesh have grown over time as a typical mannequin of cooperation whereby amicable options of impending issues are discovered by way of negotiations and constructive dialogues. Since the 2 international locations have originated from an uninterrupted geographical, historic and cultural continuum, they’ve many shared sources and considerations.
Rivers are one of the vital notable shared sources between the 2 international locations. The situation of water administration and water sharing is essential within the bilateral cooperation agenda of Delhi and Dhaka as India and Bangladesh share 54 rivers. The two international locations have recognized seven of those rivers for creating the framework of water-sharing agreements on precedence.
The widespread main rivers between the 2 international locations embrace the Ganges, Teesta, Manu, Muhuri, Khowai, Gumti, Dharla, Dudhkumar and Kushiyara. In the current Joint River Commission (JRC), each international locations finalised the textual content of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on interim water sharing of the Kushiyara river.
The thirty eighth JRC was held on twenty sixth August and led by India’s Minister of Jal Shakti, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and his Bangladesh counterpart, Zaheed Farooque. The Kushiyara river is a distributary of Barak river which branches out as Kushiyara and Surma close to the India-Bangladesh border.
Although JRC met after the lengthy hole of 12 years, it dwelt upon a number of essential bilateral problems with mutual curiosity together with water sharing of widespread rivers, sharing of flood knowledge, addressing river air pollution, conducting joint research on sedimentation administration, river financial institution safety works and so on. The two sides additionally mentioned widespread basin administration and Indian river linking initiatives.
Although India helped Bangladesh in Covid-19 administration, the economic system of the nation suffered a terrific jolt due to lockdowns and disruptions in motion, logistics and provide chains. The foreign exchange reserves of the nation had been depleted as its exports had been adversely affected. Dhaka was compelled to barter an help bundle from the IMF. The Bangladesh PM could search help from India to battle its financial disaster and speed up financial restoration. During the upcoming go to of the Bangladesh Prime Minister, Bangladesh is prone to provoke talks for having an India-Bangladesh Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). It can be seemingly that the 2 premiers would focus on defence cooperation. The bilateral defence cooperation got here into focus final month when the Indian Army Chief visited Bangladesh amid hypothesis that Indian weapons may additional equip the army forces of Bangladesh. The defence cooperation between the 2 international locations is crucial due to vulnerabilities on account of geo-political instability in Myanmar and uncalled-for provocations from exterior forces within the northeast. This can be essential to fight terrorism within the area. As India takes connectivity as the foremost determinant of improvement in South Asian international locations, it’s prone to put forth a proposal to extend railway connectivity and restore three extra prepare companies between India and Bangladesh. It may search to revive previous tracks used till the 1965 India-Pakistan conflict.
It would additionally seemingly deliver the transit situation to reap the benefit of complementarities with the not too long ago constructed Padma Bridge, connecting southwestern Bangladesh together with the Mongla Seaport with the remainder of the nation in addition to India. Given the nice observe file of negotiation and dialogue, the leaders of the 2 international locations would possibly go a step ahead in coming occasions in resolving Teesta waters situation and different transboundary streams alongside motorised automobile actions to and from Nepal and Bhutan by way of the Indian territory and BBIN initiatives.The two international locations have been cooperating for the reason that independence of Bangladesh with an impeccable file of friendship and belief. They have a robust resolve to additional the general ties and take it to a brand new top. The go to of Bangladesh PM to India is prone to be a step ahead. (ANI)