The envoy mentioned that the Indian Excessive Fee in Dhaka is consistently endeavouring to enhance its assets to higher deal with the massive quantity of visa requests from Bangladeshi nationals.
India stands able to stroll along with Bangladesh in realising Dhaka’s imaginative and prescient of a secure, progressive and affluent nation, the Indian envoy has mentioned in Dhaka as he underlined that the 1971 Liberation Warfare stays the bedrock for ties between the 2 international locations.
“It is time for us to cherish our friendship and reiterate the commitment to preserve and promote the spirit of 1971 that remains the bedrock of our (Bangladesh-India) ties,” Indian Excessive Commissioner Pranay Verma was quoted as saying by Bangladesh’s nationwide information company BSS.
Conveying his warmest needs on Victory Day, Mr. Verma on Saturday mentioned the Liberation Warfare and the triumph of the folks epitomise the 2 international locations’ shared sacrifices for Bangladesh’s freedom and stand testimony to the time-tested friendship between Delhi and Dhaka.
“As nations whose destinies are as connected as our geographies and historical roots, we are today at the cusp of realising the promise of a Sonali adhyay (golden chapter) in our ties,” he mentioned.
The Liberation Warfare in 1971 broke after the sudden crackdown at midnight on March 25, 1971, within the erstwhile East Pakistan by the Pakistani troops and ended on December 16. The identical yr Pakistan conceded defeat and unconditionally surrendered in Dhaka to the allied forces comprising the liberty fighters and the Indian troopers.
Talking on the opening ceremony of the Biman Bangladesh Airways inaugural flight from Dhaka to Chennai at Hazrat Shahjalal Worldwide Airport right here, Mr. Verma mentioned the extent and scope of partnership and the engagement between Bangladesh and India has grown at a speedy tempo in recent times and connectivity has been one of many main manifestations of this transformation within the relationship.
By way of air connectivity alone, he mentioned, there are greater than 120 flights linking Dhaka with 5 main Indian cities each week, apart from a Delhi flight linking Chattogram with Kolkata.
“Whether for tourism, for business, for health care or education, our people-to-people connect is a thriving, living foundation of our bilateral relations,” Mr. Verma mentioned, including that the variety of folks travelling to one another’s nation is simply going to develop within the coming years.
“The new transport links which are being constantly added to enhance our cross-border linkages, and the rising number of our people travelling to each other’s countries reflect a new era of our growing engagement and a new momentum in our people-to-people relations,” he mentioned.
Over the last monetary yr, the envoy mentioned, they issued over 15 lakh visas to Bangladeshi residents visiting India, and the quantity goes to be surpassed this yr.
“We do indeed want this number to grow because we believe that people-to-people relations are what makes our relationship special,” he mentioned.
The envoy mentioned that the Indian Excessive Fee in Dhaka is consistently endeavouring to enhance its assets to higher deal with the massive quantity of visa requests from Bangladeshi nationals.
State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism M. Mahbub Ali and Biman Bangladesh Airways Managing Director and CEO Shafiul Azim have been current on the event.
Biman Bangladesh board of administrators chairman Mostofa Kamal Uddin, Civil Aviation and Tourism Secretary Md. Mokammel Hossain and HSIA’s Government Director Captain M. Kamrul Islam have been additionally current.
The inaugural flight operated by Boeing 737 carrying 161 passengers took off from Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal Worldwide Airport (HSIA) at 12.50 p.m. (native time).
Initially, Biman will function three flights weekly on this route on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday with departure from Dhaka at 12:50 p.m. (native time) arrival at Chennai at 3:20 p.m. (native time) and return flight departure from Chennai at 4:15 p.m. (native time) and arrival at Dhaka at 7:30 p.m. (native time).