Hasina, Modi to inaugurate Bangladesh-India cross-border oil pipeline on March 18
Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi will jointly inaugurate the maiden cross-border oil pipeline between the two countries on March 18 for diesel transportation to this country.
Bangladesh's foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said, Good news is India will send us diesel. The pipeline has been completed. The two prime ministers will inaugurate the pipeline on March 18 (through video conferencing).
A long-term agreement was signed in 2017 to import diesel from India to Bangladesh through the pipeline, which stretches from West Bengal's Siliguri to a Meghna petroleum depot in Dinajpur's Parbatipur.
The bilateral project launched in March 2020 had an initial deadline of June 2022 that was pushed back another year due to complications from the coronavirus pandemic.
The pipeline stretches 125km inside Bangladesh's territory and 5 km inside India.
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