Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Harsh Vardhan Shringla has described Bangladesh-India relations “multi-faceted.”
He said the relations today cover cooperation in a wide spectrum of areas including security and border management; trade, commerce and investment, connectivity, energy and power, space, developmental projects, culture and greater people-to-people exchanges. “In the last 9 years, India and Bangladesh have been able to make more progress in furthering bilateral relations than we could in the preceding years,” Shringla said while addressing the 69th Republic Day reception on Friday night. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali who attended the function as the chief guest laid emphasis on further broadening ties between the two friendly nations.
Ministers, Advisors to Prime Minister, MPs, political leaders, representatives of the Bangladesh Armed Forces, representatives of the civil services, businesspersons, cultural and academic personalities and senior journalists were present. The High Commissioner said they also continued to lay strong emphasis on strengthening people-to-people contacts by taking further initiatives to improve access to India visas for Bangladesh nationals.
The number of visas issued by the High Commission of India has nearly doubled from 7.5 lakh in 2015 to 14 lakh in 2017, he mentioned.
