Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to witness the signing of a series of agreements, MoUs and exchange of documents on Saturday, his first day of the two-day visit in Dhaka.
Published : 05 Jun 2015, 08:54 PM
All those events will take place at the Prime Minister’s Office.
He arrived at 10:08am on his first ever Bangladesh visit.
Exchange of documents
Instrument of ratification of Land Boundary Agreement will be exchanged along with the letters of modalities for implementation of LBA signed in 1974 and its protocol in 2011.
Unveiling foundation plaque
Khulna-Mongla railway line
Rabindra Bhavan at Kuthibarri, Shiliguri
Bangladesh-India Friendship Bridge-1 over the Feni River
Kulaurha-Shahjadpur railway link
Bangladesh-India Friendship Building at Sardah Police Academy
Inauguration
Upgraded BSTI laboratory
Brahmanbarhia-Tripura border haat
Exchange of agreements, protocols
Agreement on bilateral trade
Coastal shipping
Protocol on inland waterways
Agreement and protocol on two bus services namely Agartala-Kolkata via Bangladesh and Dhaka-Guwahati via Meghalaya’s capital Shillong and Sylhet.
Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs)
MoU signing between Bangladesh and Indian coastguards
MoU on prevention of smuggling of fake currency notes
MoU on Indian endowment on climate change for SAARC
MoU on prevention of human trafficking
MoU on cultural exchanges
Semi-government MoU
MoU between Rajshahi University and New Delhi’s Jamia Milia Islamia
MoU between the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research India and Dhaka University’s Department of Oceanography for joint research in the Bay of Bengal
MoU for bandwidth leasing between BSNL and BSCCL
Document exchanges between the two PMs
Modi will hand over a CD containing record of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s speech at Kolkata in 1972, his first official visit after Bangladesh’s independence.
He will also hand over the transcripts of the Indian Parliament’s sessions regarding amendment of constitution related to settlement of the Land Boundary Agreement.
Hasina will hand him a photograph of “signing instrument of surrender of 1971” that shows Pakistan army surrendering to the joint forces of Bangladesh and India.
Private companies of the two countries may sign several agreements between them.