India stands largest export partner of Bangladesh
Officials, stakeholders attend regional cooperation meet
Agency / IH News Desk
AGARTALA, September 13 2023: India has been largest export partner of its immediate neighbour Bangladesh, even more than Japan and China. Joint secretary (Bangladesh and Myanmar) in the Union Ministry of External Affairs Smita Pant disclosed this here Wednesday.
She was speaking at a convention on regional cooperation titled, "Exploring new trade routes: India's North East to the Bay of Bengal via Bangladesh Transit Agreement". Stakeholders under several government departments and agencies from both countries attended the meet.
Pant said that the export volume of Bangladesh has received a big momentum, with currently touching a new height from 450 million US dollars to 2 billion US dollars. Highlighting the flow in bilateral trade relations and cooperation in multi modal ways between two nations, she said the Agartala-Akhaura rail link project is nearing completion on Indian side while work is rapidly progressing in Bangladesh.
Five operational railway lines between India and Bangladesh are Petrapole to Benapole, Gede to Darshana, Singhabad to Rohanpur, Radhikapur to Birol and Haldibari to Chilahati. Besides Agartala – Akhaura, the seventh rail line with Bangladesh will connect Assam.
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