Indian Government to take liberal visa regime for Bangladesh
India would choose a liberal visa policy for economic cooperation to stimulate and encourage Indian companies to invest in Bangladesh to the imbalance in trade to tackle and mutual benefit to harvest.
"As a step in the direction from which the commitment to India to join hands with Dhaka in giving a boost to the economic prosperity of Bangladesh and the people, we decided to take a liberal visa regime," High Commissioner Pankaj Saran said at the beginning of India Show in Dhaka.
India attaches great importance to link to Bangladesh as a strategically and economically important element in the development of its "Look East" policy.
Living up to the promise of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to act and non-tariff barriers between India and Bangladesh to remove, India has chosen to take a liberal visa policy for different categories of Bangladeshi nationals to establish as a proactive step to promote economic engagement, people to people contacts, cultural and tourism ties between the two nations.
It was in October of this year, when the two countries agreed on the Home Secretary level talks to exclusive meeting to draw up rules and procedures, at the earliest. But India did not wait Joint Working Group (JWG) to set to sort by the liberal visa regime issue and further unilaterally gone to visa procedures for seniors, students, business people, medical patients to simplify and promote tourism. "There is no formal agreement between India and Bangladesh on visa regime. As a step in the direction from which the commitment to India to join hands with Dhaka in giving a boost to the economic prosperity of Bangladesh and the people we decided to take a liberal visa regime to take,'' India's ambassador to Bangladesh, told Pankaj Saran reporters here at the beginning of the "India Show" organized by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and FICCI. India currently offers nearly 500,000 visas to Bangladesh nationals every year and with a new visa regime in place, this figure is probably a huge hike to do.
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India would choose a liberal visa policy for economic cooperation to stimulate and encourage Indian companies to invest in Bangladesh to the imbalance in trade to tackle and mutual benefit to harvest.
"As a step in the direction from which the commitment to India to join hands with Dhaka in giving a boost to the economic prosperity of Bangladesh and the people, we decided to take a liberal visa regime," High Commissioner Pankaj Saran said at the beginning of India Show in Dhaka.
India attaches great importance to link to Bangladesh as a strategically and economically important element in the development of its "Look East" policy.
Living up to the promise of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to act and non-tariff barriers between India and Bangladesh to remove, India has chosen to take a liberal visa policy for different categories of Bangladeshi nationals to establish as a proactive step to promote economic engagement, people to people contacts, cultural and tourism ties between the two nations.
It was in October of this year, when the two countries agreed on the Home Secretary level talks to exclusive meeting to draw up rules and procedures, at the earliest. But India did not wait Joint Working Group (JWG) to set to sort by the liberal visa regime issue and further unilaterally gone to visa procedures for seniors, students, business people, medical patients to simplify and promote tourism. "There is no formal agreement between India and Bangladesh on visa regime. As a step in the direction from which the commitment to India to join hands with Dhaka in giving a boost to the economic prosperity of Bangladesh and the people we decided to take a liberal visa regime to take,'' India's ambassador to Bangladesh, told Pankaj Saran reporters here at the beginning of the "India Show" organized by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and FICCI. India currently offers nearly 500,000 visas to Bangladesh nationals every year and with a new visa regime in place, this figure is probably a huge hike to do.
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