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PM Narendra Modi will be visiting Dhaka on March 26-27, to attend the golden jubilee celebrations of Bangladesh s independence, PM Modi will be meeting Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka | Photo Credit: PTI
New Delhi: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi s visit to Dhaka later this month, officials of India and Bangladesh will be meeting in New Delhi to discuss issues related to river water sharing and flood forecast, today. The Indian delegation will be represented by Pankaj Kumar, secretary in the Jal Shakti Ministry, while the Bangladeshi delegation will be headed by senior secretary Kabir Bin Anwar.
Water Resources Secretary of Bangladesh and India meet in New Delhi
Staff Correspondent
16th March, 2021 10:38:22
The Water Resources Secretary Level meetings between Bangladesh and India was held in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Kabir Bin Anwar, Senior Secretary of Ministry of Water Resources of Bangladesh, led the Bangladesh side. Indian side was led by Pankaj Kumar, Secretary, Ministry of Jal Shakti of India. Muhammad Imran, High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India also attended the meeting, said a press release issued by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh.
The meeting was held in a cordial atmosphere and good understanding. Both sides held discussions on issues related to excavation of remaining portion of Intake channel (Rahimpurkhal) of the Upper Surma-Kushiyara Project in Bangladesh, pollution in Titas River through C&B khal and Janji River at Akhaura in Bangladesh, reduced flow in the Mohananda River due to withdrawal of water in West Bengal, India, Cooperation between
Teesta’s water sharing issue: Possible to move forward only after West Bengal assembly polls
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India today conveyed to Bangladesh that any steps forward on the long-unresolved issue of sharing of Teesta water will be possible only after completion of the assembly elections in West Bengal.
This was said during the talks of Water Resources Secretaries of Bangladesh and India in New Delhi after Dhaka brought up the issue, official sources said according to our New Delhi correspondent.
The eight-phased West Bengal polls end on April 29 and the counting of votes is scheduled for May 2.
Dhaka stresses Teesta agreement according to 2011 understanding
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NEW DELHI/DHAKA, Mar 16, 2021 (BSS) – Bangladesh today said it wants the long pending proposed Teesta agreement with New Delhi in line with the 2011 understanding between the two neighbours as top bureaucrats of water resources ministries held talks in the Indian capital.
“Bangladesh wants signing of the Teesta river agreement as agreed in 2011 for the betterment of millions of people of both the countries,” a Bangladesh high commission spokesman in New Delhi told BSS following the talks.
Bangladesh’s Water Resources ministry senior secretary Kabir Bin Anwar and his counterpart in India’s “Jal Shakti” ministry Pankaj Kumar led their respective sides in the meeting, joined as well Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Muhammad Imran, among others.