Bangladesh not Ready to Give Transit to India

[eastwatch]

New Age | Newspaper

Bangladesh not yet ready to give India transit: Quader
Staff Correspondent

Commerce minister GM Quader gestures while speaking at a seminar on ‘Re-export: new opportunity for Bangladesh’ held in Dhaka on Saturday. DCCI president Asif Ibrahim is also seen in the picture. — New Age photoThe commerce minister, Ghulam Muhammed Quader, on Saturday said that Bangladesh was not ready to give India transit now considering the dilapidated condition of roads in Bangladesh.

‘We are in discussion with India about transit. They [India] are ready to pay fees for transit. But, I do not think it will be right to give transit to India now because of poor condition of our infrastructure and transport system,’ he said at a seminar on ‘Re-export: New Opportunity for Bangladesh’.

He said that Bangladesh did not have any seaport and both Chittagong and Mongla ports were river ports. ‘If we can build a deep seaport, it will not only expand trade with India but also in the region,’ he said at the seminar organised by the Dhaka Chamber and Commerce Industry and the Business Initiative Leasing Development at the DCCI auditorium.

Although business leaders and trade experts at the seminar requested the government to implement the ‘re-export’ provision stipulated in the national export policy, Quader pointed that the infrastructure problems continued to be the barrier to the re-export.

DCCI president Asif Ibrahim that although ‘re-export’ provision was incorporated in the export policies since 2003, the system could not be implemented because of unexplained reasons.
In the existing export policy re-export has been defined as the export of an imported product within a specific period of time with a value addition of at least 10 per cent to the imported price by changing the quality or shape of the product by means of local reprocessing.

Asif said that re-export had the potential to facilitate trades with landlocked Nepal, Bhutan and the north-eastern provinces of India. He said that the different government agencies like National Board of Revenue and custom houses would need to be made aware of re-export and proper cooperation and coordination should be ensured among these agencies.

He urged the government to set up re-export zones like the export processing zones or special economic zones. In response to the business leaders’ demands, the commerce minister said that proper infrastructure including roads, transport and seaport facility was very essential for re-export.

‘Inefficient bureaucracy is also a barrier to facilitating re-export and the country’s development,’ he added. MS Siddiqui, co-convener of standing committee on export of DCCI, presented the key note paper at the programme.

Bangladesh Tariff Commission chairman Md Mozibur Rahman, Export Promotion Bureau vice-chairman Shubhashish Bose, CPD senior research fellow Khondoker Golam Moazzem and DCCI director Ashraf Uddin spoke, among others, at the seminar

 

[KRAIT]

No transit through roads, deep sea port plans and advertising it....China already building sea ports at various nearby country of India....does anyone smell fishy.....May be a conspiracy theory or may be just simple issue.

 

[ashok321]

dilapidated condition of roads in Bangladesh
because of poor condition of our infrastructure and transport system

Why dont you people upgrade yr infrastructure instead of buying arms and ammuition, as if India is there to gobble you up. You people are surrounded by India (one third) any way, how much you wanna spend on defense and for what?
Dont replicate Pakistan, who is facing load shedding of worst kind, thier locomotives are not plyable, waitng for funds, which are not there....70 percent budget goes to military of Pakistan.

Word to a wise is enough.

 

[eastwatch]

Why dont you people upgrade yr infrastructure instead of buying arms and ammuition, as if India is there to gobble you up. You people are surrounded by India (one third) any way, how much you wanna spend on defense and for what?
Dont replicate Pakistan, who is facing load shedding of worst kind, thier locomotives are not plyable, waitng for funds, which are not there....70 percent budget goes to military of Pakistan.

Word to a wise is enough.

We do not have to improve our communications infrastructure in order to facilitate an Indian traffic. If and when, which I doubt will ever going to happen, there is a transit treaty India must be ready with a minimum of $10 billion in cash money so that we can build a good infrastructure.

Bangladesh does not spend the way India and Pakistan spend their hard earned money on military while poor Indian farmers commit suicides and many Pakistanis remain without jobs. Our military spending is only 6.8% of the budget, very insignificant comparing to our neighbours.

 

[Rusty]

Why dont you people upgrade yr infrastructure instead of buying arms and ammuition, as if India is there to gobble you up. You people are surrounded by India (one third) any way, how much you wanna spend on defense and for what?
Dont replicate Pakistan, who is facing load shedding of worst kind, thier locomotives are not plyable, waitng for funds, which are not there....70 percent budget goes to military of Pakistan.

Word to a wise is enough.

OR worse don't be like India, which is the worlds largest weapons importer and has the worlds largest population in poverty at the same time.

And 70% really? even you know that BS.

 

[Icewolf]

Facing load shedding of worst kind, 70 percent budget goes to military of Pakistan.

Word to a wise is enough.

Hey kiddo did you pull this out of your a$$? Loadshedding here is only 1 hour kiddo... And we don't spend 70% of our budget on military.

 

[ashok321]

Hey kiddo did you pull this out of your a$$? Loadshedding here is only 1 hour kiddo... And we don't spend 70% of our budget on military.

In terms of ruppees, how many billion rupees you prople spend on the defense n security, give me the number n amount....Pakistani budget is three trillion Rs....for yr info.

Hey kiddo did you pull this out of your a$$? Loadshedding here is only 1 hour kiddo... And we don't spend 70% of our budget on military.

Load shedding is one hour?
Most magician pull the rabbit from the hat.
But u have just done the incredble thing.
You pulled the rabbit with its cage from the magic hat.
LOl...
Pakistan has an average of 8 to 10 hours of load shedding....
Go n fool others...

 

[Water Car Engineer]

We do not have to improve our communications infrastructure in order to facilitate an Indian traffic. If and when, which I doubt will ever going to happen, there is a transit treaty India must be ready with a minimum of $10 billion in cash money so that we can build a good infrastructure.

Bangladesh does not spend the way India and Pakistan spend their hard earned money on military while poor Indian farmers commit suicides and many Pakistanis remain without jobs. Our military spending is only 6.8% of the budget, very insignificant comparing to our neighbours.

India is spending a lot more on infra, power, etc projects than on the military. Billions worth, more than anything Bangladesh is doing.

OR worse don't be like India, which is the worlds largest weapons importer and has the worlds largest population in poverty at the same time.

And 70% really? even you know that BS.

Just because India has more to spend now, doesn't mean it's any different from Pakistan. Pakistan spends more then India percentage wise than India.

 

[tvsram1992]

build few dams on ganga and brahmaputra they will come to our feet and will satisfy our demands

 

[Icewolf]

In terms of ruppees, how many billion rupees you prople spend on the defense n security, give me the number n amount....Pakistani budget is three trillion Rs....for yr info.



Load shedding is one hour?
Most magician pull the rabbit from the hat.
But u have just done the incredble thing.
You pulled the rabbit with its cage from the magic hat.
LOl...
Pakistan has an average of 8 to 10 hours of load shedding....
Go n fool others...

lol an Indian trying to tell me what loadshedding here is.. I can only laugh bro.. Quit it, you are making yourself look stupid

 

[INDIC]

Bangladesh is not reliable at all, we always have other options.

 

[manofwar]

We do not have to improve our communications infrastructure in order to facilitate an Indian traffic. If and when, which I doubt will ever going to happen, there is a transit treaty India must be ready with a minimum of $10 billion in cash money so that we can build a good infrastructure.

Bangladesh does not spend the way India and Pakistan spend their hard earned money on military while poor Indian farmers commit suicides and many Pakistanis remain without jobs. Our military spending is only 6.8% of the budget, very insignificant comparing to our neighbours.

come on man, an 8 lane Highway of the highest quality and standards, stretching 165 kms was built in $2 billion.............
So, a 2 lane highway stretching 660kms can be built for even lesser in BD, considering the lower cost of labour
Since we have already pledged a $ 1 billion in Aid, why doesn't BD use this to improve road infrastructure?? That would benefit BD citizens also, and you can get a hefty transit fee too

 

[Maira La]

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[INDIC]

come on man, an 8 lane Highway of the highest quality and standards, stretching 165 kms was built in $2 billion.............
So, a 2 lane highway stretching 660kms can be built for even lesser in BD, considering the lower cost of labour
Since we have already pledged a $ 1 billion in Aid, why doesn't BD use this to improve road infrastructure?? That would benefit BD citizens also, and you can get a hefty transit fee too

Time to move that $1 Billion investment into Myanmar. As well as time to stop any transit for electricity sale to Bangladesh from Nepal or Bhutan.

 

[Screambowl]

if they do not have sea ports lets build it, and send 1-2 warships for the security of the port
lets build roads in Bdesh and take the toll service money .. it will be a good investment for India and Bdesh.