Dhaka, Bangladesh (AHN) – India and Bangladesh have signed an important multi-modal transit deal which will allow New Delhi to supply Tripura, a landlocked north-eastern Indian state.
A crucial transshipment deal was signed by India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation’s (ONGC) senior adviser R. K. Madan and Bangladesh’s Roads & Highways chief engineer Azizur Rahman on Tuesday. After this deal, India will be able to ship heavy equipment through 96 consignments for the proposed Palatana Power Plant in Tripura.
According to an official associated with the decision, India will be shipping the consignments in 30 ferries and trucks, while the Tripura Power Company will pay a service charge to Bangladesh. However, India is not required to pay any other charges to Bangladesh, said the Bangladeshi Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan at the signing ceremony.
Another official informed that after the equipment reaches Ashuganj, the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) would carry out the weighing and unloading of the goods and then carry it forward to its frontier post at Sultanpur, which is adjoining Tripura. From here the goods will make the final leg of their journey.
Bangladesh Shipping Secretary Abdul Mannan told the press after the signing ceremony that the Indian equipment would begin to reach Bangladesh’s Ashuganj river port from where the same would be transported to Tripura in trucks.
It was six months ago that the two countries had signed an agreement to declare Ashuganj their new “port of call” to carry further a decision taken earlier than that during the India visit of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Now Ashuganj is the second transshipment point and fifth port of call in Bangladesh while New Delhi has extended a similar favor to Bangladesh through its Shilghat port.
Speaking during the signing ceremony, Bangladesh’s shipping minister said, “Bangladesh will recall ever particularly the support of the people of Tripura to our 1971 Liberation War…”
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