MoU with Bangladesh likely, New waterway : Tripura CM

Agartala:  India and Bangladesh are probably going to sign a MoU for another conduit to associate Gomati stream in Tripura and Meghna waterway in Bangladesh during the four-day excursion of Bangladesh Premier Sheik Hasina starting from Thursday, Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said.

Hasina will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi during her visit, he said.

Deb is leaving for New Delhi Thursday to meet the Bangladesh Prime Minister, authorities said.

Bangladesh Premier Sheik Hasina will meet our Prime Minister Narendra Modi during her four-day excursion starting today and a wide scope of two-sided issues would be talked about,” Deb said at a capacity here.

On the off chance that the MoU is marked by them another convention course among Bangladesh and India will be opened by interfacing Gomati and Meghna streams. It would encourage carriage of merchandise from Ashuganj port on Meghna stream in Brahmanbaria area of Bangladesh to Sonamura in Sipahijala region of Tripura, he said.

Development of vessels on Gomati stream for giving conduit network to Tripura would be conceivable simply after the consideration of the stretch between Sonamura in Tripura’s Sepahijala area and Daudkandi in Comilla region of Bangladesh as a major aspect of the Indo-Bangladesh Protocol course, Deb said.

The Chief Minister had in June looked for the authorization of the delivery service through an official letter for development of a transitory wharf on Gomati stream and assertion of the stretch of it from Sonamura in Tripuras Sepahijala region to Daudkandi in Comilla locale of Bangladesh as conduit availability of the Indo-Bangladesh Protocol course.

At present ships and steamers utilize from Haldia in West Bengal to Daudkandi in Bangladesh, which is just 80 km from Tripura’s Sonamura sub-division in Sepahijala area.

“Chittagong port was built for better transportation in the whole eastern district. Be that as it may, because of parcel of the nation there is no entrance of us (India) to the port. The issue will be examined in todays meeting,” the Tripura Chief Minister said.