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India calls for deeper ties in telecoms

Diplomatic Correspondent
Indian Minister for Communications and Information Technology Kapil Sibal has stressed efforts to deepen cooperation between Bangladesh and India in the telecoms sector.
Mentioning the historically deep bonding between Bangladesh and India, Sibal said the two nations must work together to reap the bene-fits of advancements in the telecoms sector.
The minister said this while talking to the visiting Bangladesh parliamentary delegation led by Hasanul Haq Inu, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on ministry of posts and telecommunications in New Delhi, Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi said in a statement yesterday.
Other members of the committee, Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, Mouazzam Hossain Ratan and engineer Golam Mostafa also attended the meeting. Bangladesh High Commissioner to New Delhi Tariq A Karim was also present.
Expressing his government’s
interest in extending cooperation to Bangladesh, the Indian minister agreed to set up a six-member joint working group with three members from each country as proposed by Bangladesh who would identify the priority areas and a roadmap could be devised subsequently on the basis of their report.
Bangladesh delegation emphasized the need for putting in place a structural mechanism enabling regular meetings among the concerned officers of the two governments.
In response, Inu referred to the bright prospects of Bangladesh in turning itself into the hub of networks in this region. He emphasised opening up all windows for more connectivity for the betterment of the people as a whole.
He identified the priority areas of Bangladesh which are migration to Internet Protocol Version (IPVJ-6, Green ICT, digitisation of all the secondary schools in Bangladesh, setting up digitised postal centres, management of electronic waste, combating cyber crime, making ICT a tool to mitigate climate change,
satellite network for Asia and Asian Terrestrial Information Highway.
Inu expressed his view that connectivity based on information technology may be considered at subregional level taking Nepal and Bhutan also along with India and Bangladesh.
Earlier, the delegation visited the Office of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), a state-owned telecommunications service provider in the metro cities of Mumbai and New Delhi in India and had a very interactive meeting with the Chairman of MTNL AK Garag and other high officials.
The delegation also visited Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a state-owned telecommunications company headquartered in New Delhi, and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the independent regulator of the telecommunications business in India.
They will visit Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), an autonomous body developing telecommunications and networking equipment to gather experience on its activities.