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Offer to sign up for Indian ‘air bubble’
India has proposed resuming flights with Bangladesh, which were suspended in March due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Indian High Commissioner Riva Ganguly Das offered an assembly with Minister of State for Civil Aviation and Tourism Mahbub Ali held at the secretariat on Thursday.
He also proposed that Bangladesh be registered in India’s “air bubble,” a hall between the two countries to reopen its borders and restore connections, and expressed India’s interest in following the progression of Bangladesh’s aviation sector.
State Minister Mahbub Ali agreed on a desire to resume air communication between the two countries and said action will soon be taken to repair air connectivity.
During the meeting, the Minister of State and India’s envoy discussed cooperative tactics between the two friendly neighbours in the progression of the tourism and aviation sectors.
State Minister Mahbub said the friendly between Bangladesh and India was long over.
Bangladesh will not forget with gratitude the contribution of the other Indians to the war of liberation from the ancient war of 1971, adding that the government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is running to further expand relations between the two countries.
India’s envoy also agreed that relations between Bangladesh and India are based on a forged basis, which plays a role in the well-being of other people in both countries.
At the meeting, Mahbub Ali said that after Covid-19, regional cooperation was mandatory to stimulate the tourism industry in the region.
Mutual cooperation in the tourism and aviation sectors will help either country achieve their goals, he added.
Describing his pleasure in traveling to the Sundarbans and his stay in Bangladesh as “excellent”, Das said that Bangladesh is a country with immense prospects for tourism and that there are many prospects for expanding tourism relations between the two neighbors.
He said paintings are being made to repair Shilaidaha Kuthibari’s infrastructure in Kushtia, the ancestral home of Rabindranath Tagore, with an Indian grant.
Once the recovery is complete, a large number of people from West Bengal will travel to Bangladesh to make a stopover at the site, he added.
Emphasizing that direct flights from Sylhet’s MAG Osmani International Airport in London would begin soon, State Minister Mahbub Ali said Sylhet Transit Airport would be much more convenient for Indian citizens traveling to the UK from the northeastern states of the country. The Indian envoy agreed with him.
She thanked the outgoing Indian envoy for her cooperation in the various spaces she remained in Bangladesh. He also congratulated Das on his appointment as Secretary (for the East) of the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Kazi Anis Ahmed, editor