NEW DELHI, 12 March, 2021 (TON): New Delhi plans to take Dhaka into its strategic embrace under the Indo-Pacific jacket with India enhancing its infrastructure connectivity with Bangladesh.   

India’s PM Modi will visit Bangladesh on 26-27 March and it will be his first visit abroad since pandemic lockdown.

Earlier this week, the Prime Ministers of both the countries PM Hasina and Modi have virtually inaugurated the Maitree Setu Bridge over the Feni River to ease trade access to the Chittagong Port of Bangladesh.

The 1.9-km bridge, built over the Feni River, will connect Tripura with Bangladesh. On the Indian side, it will connect with an integrated check post on the land border between Sabroom in India and Ramgarh in Bangladesh.

Apart from it, India and Bangladesh are involved in a number of other initiatives that will prove to be the projects of the future when it comes to enhancing India’s Neighborhood Policy as well as Look East Policy, diplomatic sources told the media.

These future projects include water and shipping, railways, road, and air links, all have the objective to ease the connectivity and take it to the expert level, and also to assert influence on the Bay of Bengal area that is fast becoming the cornerstone of the Indo-Pacific strategy.