UNB, Dhaka :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said Bangladesh has been able to gain its due rights from India with the maritime boundary verdict and assured of taking steps to properly utilise the maritime resources for the betterment of the country’s people.
“We’ve been able to establish our rights in the Bay through realising our just share from India. We’ll be able to properly utilise the marine resources for the betterment of the country’s people, Inshallah,” she said.
The Prime Minister said this while addressing the annual conference of the Bangladesh Administrative Service Association (BASA) held at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre here in the afternoon. She also joined an Iftar party there.
State Minister for Public Administration Ismat Ara Sadeq and Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan spoke on the occasion. BASA President and Ministry of Public Administration Senior Secretary Dr Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury presided over the function, while BASA Secretary General and Additional Secretary AN ShamsuddinAzad Chowdhury delivered the welcome address.
Bangladesh has gained some 19,467 square kilometers of maritime areas at the Bay of Bengal out of the disputed approximately 25,602 square kilometers with neighbouring India, raising the prospect of exploring huge maritime resources.
With this verdict, Bangladesh has won more than 118,813 square kilometers of waters comprising territorial sea, exclusive economic zone extending out to 200 NM across sizable area, and also have ‘undeniable’ sovereign rights in the seabed extending as far as 354 NM from Chittagong coast in the Bay of Bengal with all the living and non-living resources.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said Bangladesh has been able to gain its due rights from India with the maritime boundary verdict and assured of taking steps to properly utilise the maritime resources for the betterment of the country’s people.
“We’ve been able to establish our rights in the Bay through realising our just share from India. We’ll be able to properly utilise the marine resources for the betterment of the country’s people, Inshallah,” she said.
The Prime Minister said this while addressing the annual conference of the Bangladesh Administrative Service Association (BASA) held at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre here in the afternoon. She also joined an Iftar party there.
State Minister for Public Administration Ismat Ara Sadeq and Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan spoke on the occasion. BASA President and Ministry of Public Administration Senior Secretary Dr Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury presided over the function, while BASA Secretary General and Additional Secretary AN ShamsuddinAzad Chowdhury delivered the welcome address.
Bangladesh has gained some 19,467 square kilometers of maritime areas at the Bay of Bengal out of the disputed approximately 25,602 square kilometers with neighbouring India, raising the prospect of exploring huge maritime resources.
With this verdict, Bangladesh has won more than 118,813 square kilometers of waters comprising territorial sea, exclusive economic zone extending out to 200 NM across sizable area, and also have ‘undeniable’ sovereign rights in the seabed extending as far as 354 NM from Chittagong coast in the Bay of Bengal with all the living and non-living resources.
