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PM's IndiaVisit Deals likely on power, railway infrastructure

Staff Correspondent
Bangladesh and India may sign two deals on the purchase of electricity from India and developing Bangladesh's railway and roads with Indian funding when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visits New Delhi this month.
Bangladesh foreign ministry officials said Dhaka would emphasise signing a deal on sharing the water of theTeesta during Hasina'a visit. Bangladesh is also expected to put forward a draft of the deal. But it is still not sure whether any deal will be inked during the visit since the matter is to be settled at the highest political level.
On Wednesday, the two countries at the end of home secret ary-level talks in New Delhi finalised the drafts of three deals--Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance on Criminal Matters. Transfer of Sentenced Persons and Combating International Terrorism. Organised Crime and Illicit Drug Trafficking.
"Two more deals are in the pipeline," Indian High FROM PAGE 1
Commissioner in Dhaka Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty told journalists after his meeting with Foreign Secretary Md Mijarul Quayes at the foreign ministry yesterday.
Asked about the deals, the Indian envoy declined to elaborate.
Meanwhile, a foreign ministry official, preferring anonymity, told The Daily Star that there is a possibility of the two countries signing a deal on the trade of electricity. The Indian government in September agreed to sell Bangladesh at least 100 megawatts of electricity.
Bangladesh and India need to sign agreements on purchase of power from India as the two countries must construct a common distribution line between them, the official said.
The foreign ministry official said the other deal would be on improving Bangladesh's railway and roads with Indian funding.
The previously agreed three deals are ready and
expected to be signed during Hasina's visit.
Sheikh Hasina will leave for New Delhi on December 18 on a three-day visit. This will be her first trip to India since she assumed office for the second time in January this year.
The Bangladesh premier will meet top Indian leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and is likely to visit the information technology hubs Bangalore and Hyderabad.
She will also make a personal trip to Ajmer Sharif in Rajasthan and she will travel to Kolkata to pay a courtesy call on veteran leader Jyoti Basu who was chief minister of West Bengal till 2000 from 1977.
Hasina is expected to meet Indian National Congress leader Siddhartha Shankar Roy, who was chief minister of West Bengal during the Liberation War.
Meanwhile, a delegation of Indian water resources ministry arrived here in Dhaka to discuss river water sharing issues between the two countries.