{"id":136695,"date":"2022-03-04T10:22:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T04:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmakhani.com\/?p=136695"},"modified":"2022-03-05T11:15:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T05:45:45","slug":"india-and-bangladesh-hold-commerce-secretary-level-meeting-in-new-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/india-and-bangladesh-hold-commerce-secretary-level-meeting-in-new-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"India and Bangladesh hold Commerce Secretary Level Meeting in New Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-pa\">\u0a2e\u0a3e\u0a2b\u0a3c \u0a15\u0a30\u0a28\u0a3e, \u0a07\u0a39 \u0a16\u0a2c\u0a30 \u0a24\u0a41\u0a39\u0a3e\u0a21\u0a40 \u0a2c\u0a47\u0a28\u0a24\u0a40 \u0a2d\u0a3e\u0a38\u0a3c\u0a3e \u0a35\u0a3f\u0a71\u0a1a \u0a09\u0a2a\u0a32\u0a2c\u0a27 \u0a28\u0a39\u0a40\u0a02 \u0a39\u0a48\u0964 <a href=\"https:\/\/newsmakhani.com\/en\/\">\u0a15\u0a3f\u0a30\u0a2a\u0a3e \u0a15\u0a30\u0a15\u0a47 \u0a07\u0a71\u0a25\u0a47 \u0a26\u0a47\u0a16\u0a4b\u0964<\/a><\/p><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-center\">\n<p><strong><span id=\"ltrSubtitle\">Significant progress made on multimodal connectivity between India and Bangladesh<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joint study on India-Bangladesh CEPA to be finalized soon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ReleaseDateSubHeaddateTime text-center pt20\"><strong>DELHI : 05 MAR 2022\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>The Commerce Secretary level meeting between India and Bangladesh was held in New Delhi on 4<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0March 2022. The Indian delegation was led by Commerce Secretary, Government of India,\u00a0Shri\u00a0B.V.R. Subrahmanyam\u00a0and the Bangladesh delegation was led by Senior Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, Government of Bangladesh,\u00a0Mr.\u00a0Tapan\u00a0Kanti\u00a0Ghosh.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides held extensive discussions on a variety of issues of mutual interest, including development of railway infrastructure, port infrastructure,\u00a0Joint Study on Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement\u00a0<strong>(<\/strong>CEPA<strong>)<\/strong>, Border Haats, Regional\u00a0connectivity through Multi<strong>&#8211;<\/strong>Modal Transportation, Harmonization of Standards, Mutual Recognition Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Of the many issues discussed, progress on the following agenda items was appreciated by the delegation of both the countries: &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Significant growth in the bilateral trade between the two countries in recent years -Bangladesh is the 6<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0largest trade partner of India.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For facilitation of trade between India-Bangladesh through railways<\/p>\n<p>a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For developing container handling facility at Sirajganj Bazar a Detailed Project Proposal (DPP) approved.<\/p>\n<p>b)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For running freight trains between India-Bangladesh, 900 metre new siding line constructed at Benapole.<\/p>\n<p>c)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For allowing import of all commodities from India by rail via Darsana, the construction of loading and unloading platform completed at Darshana.<\/p>\n<p>d)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For development of Rail and Road based ICD at Ishwardi, the DPP approved.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Consensus over the use of returning empty railway wagons\/containers by Bangladesh &#8211; this would reduce overall logistics cost of India&#8217;s exports to Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Border Haats \u2013 the ones closed due to covid restriction would be opened soon<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a024&#215;7 operationalization of Petrapole-Benapole Integrated Check Post (ICP) to be implemented soon<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Substantive progress made on ICP \/Land Customs Stations<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Regional connectivity through multi-modal transport to be strengthened between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0CEPA study to be finalized at the earliest<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0CEO forum to have the first meeting soon<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was preceded by the 14<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0meeting of the Joint Working Group (JWG) on Trade, at the level of Joint\/Additional Secretaries of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt of India and Ministry of Commerce, Govt of Bangladesh on 2-3 March 2022 in New Delhi. Comprehensive discussions were held on various areas of mutual interest.<\/p>\n<p>It was agreed that the next meetings of the JWG and Commerce Secretaries will be held in Bangladesh, at mutually convenient dates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsmakhani.com\/janata-durbar-postponed\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">READ\u00a0 MORE:-\u00a0 Home Minister, Sh. Anil Vij\u2019s Janata Darbar postponed<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0a2e\u0a3e\u0a2b\u0a3c \u0a15\u0a30\u0a28\u0a3e, \u0a07\u0a39 \u0a16\u0a2c\u0a30 \u0a24\u0a41\u0a39\u0a3e\u0a21\u0a40 \u0a2c\u0a47\u0a28\u0a24\u0a40 \u0a2d\u0a3e\u0a38\u0a3c\u0a3e \u0a35\u0a3f\u0a71\u0a1a \u0a09\u0a2a\u0a32\u0a2c\u0a27 \u0a28\u0a39\u0a40\u0a02 \u0a39\u0a48\u0964 \u0a15\u0a3f\u0a30\u0a2a\u0a3e \u0a15\u0a30\u0a15\u0a47 \u0a07\u0a71\u0a25\u0a47 \u0a26\u0a47\u0a16\u0a4b\u0964 Significant progress made on multimodal connectivity between India and Bangladesh Joint study on India-Bangladesh CEPA to be finalized soon DELHI : 05 MAR 2022\u00a0 The Commerce Secretary level meeting between India and Bangladesh was held in New Delhi on 4th\u00a0March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":136710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,122],"tags":[78100,31120,56731],"class_list":["post-136695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-national","category-news","tag-india-bangladesh","tag-ministry-of-commerce-industry","tag-news-makhani"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}