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Mashiur against fees for transit
Mashiur against fees for transit | Bangladesh | bdnews24.com
Thu, Mar 31st, 2011 7:21 pm BdST
Dhaka, Mar 31 (bdnews24.com) - Bangladesh should not collect fees for providing transit or transshipment facility to India, says prime minister's economic advisor Mashiur Rahman.
"Had our country been an uncivilised one or our leaders been illiterate then we could have asked for the fees, but that's not the case," he told reporters after a dialogue on Thursday.
On several occasions in the past, both the finance minister and foreign minister had said that India should pay fees for availing of transshipment facility.
"It's a non-starter if we think that by giving transit facility, Bangladesh is actually providing subsidy to Indian export," he added.
is he lecturer of moral studies or a finance minister ?
why he is against collecting transit fee?
So what India will provide in response to free transit ?