Posted on July 25, 2017
Bangladesh and India have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to connect the north-east and West Bengal with Bangladesh through new waterways, Union minister Mansukh Mandaviya has said.
“The new waterways would enable transportation of people and goods by ships. They would be set up by using the major rivers of Bangladesh, West Bengal and the Brahmaputra in Assam,” the Union minister of state for road transport, highways and shipping told reporters here last night.
He added that the rivers would have to be dredged and both the countries would do the work in their respective rivers.
The new project would be operational this year itself and would boost the goods and passenger movement between the two countries, said Mandaviya.
India and Bangladesh share a 4,095-km border, of which 1,116 km is through rivers.
Bangladesh receives water from 54 rivers in India.
Source: The Economic Times
