Dhaka, Mar 23 (PTI) Indian and Bangladeshi officials began talks here today to renew an inland water transit and trade protocol for giving New Delhi easier and shorter access to its North-Eastern states and to boost bilateral trades, officials sad.
The two countries are expected to sign a deal renewing the two-year protocol scheduled to expire on March 31 this year, Shipping Ministry spokesman Jahangir Alam Khan told PTI.
The two sides began the two-day talk as shipping ministry secretary Masud Elahi and additional secretary of India's road, transport and highways ministry Vijay Chhibber leads their respective countries in the meeting, Khan said.
India wants inclusion of Ashuganj as a new port of call to make transport of good shorter and easier from Kolkata to Agartala through Bangladesh. But, so far there has been no response from Dhaka. Dhaka, in turn, wants higher levy for Indian goods transported through its soil.
The inland water transit protocol was first signed in 1980 under the bilateral trade agreement of 1980 which provides to make mutually beneficial arrangements for the use of their waterways for commerce maintaining the river routes in a navigable condition.
Under the protocol, both the countries allow transit for cargo through eight routes, counting both ways. PTI
The two countries are expected to sign a deal renewing the two-year protocol scheduled to expire on March 31 this year, Shipping Ministry spokesman Jahangir Alam Khan told PTI.
The two sides began the two-day talk as shipping ministry secretary Masud Elahi and additional secretary of India's road, transport and highways ministry Vijay Chhibber leads their respective countries in the meeting, Khan said.
India wants inclusion of Ashuganj as a new port of call to make transport of good shorter and easier from Kolkata to Agartala through Bangladesh. But, so far there has been no response from Dhaka. Dhaka, in turn, wants higher levy for Indian goods transported through its soil.
The inland water transit protocol was first signed in 1980 under the bilateral trade agreement of 1980 which provides to make mutually beneficial arrangements for the use of their waterways for commerce maintaining the river routes in a navigable condition.
Under the protocol, both the countries allow transit for cargo through eight routes, counting both ways. PTI
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