Dhaka and New Delhi yesterday agreed to renew the Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade for another two years and almost double the maintenance fees for six river routes inside Bangladesh.
And the yearly maintenance has been raised to Tk 10 crore for the routes — Kolkata-Chandpur-Pandu-Silghat, Kolkata-Chandpur-Karimganj, Silghat-Pandu-Ashuganj-Karimganj, Rajshahi-Dhulian, Doikhawa-Sirajganj and Karimganj-Sherpur.
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