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India and Bangladesh held the 38th meeting of the ministerial level Joint Rivers Commission (JRC) on Thursday in New Delhi where both sides finalised the text of the MoU on interim water of the Kushiyara river.
State Minister for Water Resources says Kushiyara river water sharing deal will be signed during PM Hasina’s India visit.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on interim sharing of the Kushiyara river water will be signed during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to India scheduled for the first week of September, said State Minister for Water Resources Zahid Farooque yesterday.
The Joint Rivers Commission has not been much effective in resolving the issues of water sharing of transboundary rivers due to a lack of commitment from India and also for Bangladesh's technical incapacity to be persuasive.
The JRC meeting, the first since 2010, comes ahead of Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina's three-day visit to India