Primer Ministers of India and Bangladesh commissioned international gateway of internet service in Agartala and supply of 100 MW power to Bangladesh from Tripura. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar also graced the cross border occasion connected through video conference.

• Both Prime Ministers were accompanied by their external affairs ministers, power and telecommunication ministers in their PMOs when two bilateral projects launched at around 10.30 AM.
• Agartala has become third station connected to submarine cable for internet bandwidth after Chennai and Mumbai while the state also landed in international power map by starting supply of electricity from Suryamaninagar grid to the grid in Commilla of southeast Bangladesh.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Chief Minister Manik Sarkar in their speeches termed the commissioning of 10 GBPS bandwidth import and 100 MW electricity from south Tripura’s 726 MW Palatana gas based project a historic one and a day to celebrate friendly relations between two neighbours.
• Mr Modi recalled how Bangladesh’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman developed special relation with India.
• Ms. Hasina mentioned that they have requested India for 500 MW power and both countries are working to commission a 1320 MW plant in Bangladesh. She maintained relation with India is now in its height and Bangladesh desires peaceful and mutual beneficial coexistence.

Mr. Saxena added India’s Department of Telecommunications spent around Rs 20 crores for project implementation. BSNL is hiring 10 GBPS internet bandwidth at a cost of Rs 7.2 crores per year, but there is an arrangement to provide more bandwidth.