The 34-hr packed schedule

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his around 34-hour whirlwind visit to Bangladesh beginning today is going to spend a busy time with official talks, meeting political leadership, ministers, businesspeople and people.

As per the programme schedule, Modi is expected to arrive on board 'Special Air Force Flight BBJ' in Dhaka at 10:15am.

He will lead an 81-member high-profile official delegation, which includes West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar and high officials and a 40-member security team.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will receive her Indian counterpart when he arrives at the VVIP terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

A tiny tot will present a floral bouquet to the Indian prime minister. The Indian leader will be presented with a 19-gun salute and a guard of honour by a smartly turnout contingent comprising Bangladesh Army, Navy and Air Force personnel.

After the airport ceremony Modi will first pay homage to freedom fighters and martyred soldiers of the 1971 Liberation War at the National Mausoleum in Savar where he would also plant a sapling and sign the visitors book.

He will then move to Bangabandhu Memorial Museum on Dhanmondi 32 to place wreaths at the portrait of the country's founding father and first president Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He will tour the memorial where Bangabandhu along with most of his family members was brutally assassinated by a group of disgruntled army men on August 15, 1975.

The Indian premier will arrive at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel, where he will be staying during his June 6-7 visit. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to meet Modi for 15 minutes at 3:15pm.

The Indian PM will then move to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) when his host the Bangladesh premier will receive him at 3:45pm. The two PMs will attend flag-off of direct bus services between Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala, and Dhaka-Shillong and Guowahati.

Mamata Banerjee is expected to be present on the occasion.

Hasina and Modi will then sit for tete-a-tete at 4:15pm for about 20 minutes.

Both the prime ministers of India and Bangladesh will witness exchange of Instrument of Ratification of Land Boundary Agreement and Strip Map marking the formal beginning of implementation of the LBA at 4:45pm.

Modi will attend a restricted level meeting at the PMO when he will hand over a CD containing speech of Bangabandhu delivered at Kolkata on February 6, 1972.

He will also handover the transcripts of the Indian parliamentary sessions regarding amendment of the LBA.

On the other side, Sheikh Hasina will hand over the photograph of "Signing Instrument of Surrender 1971".

The two premiers will join the delegation level official talks at Chameli in PMO at 5:40pm which would last for about 45 minutes.

The talks will be followed by joining unveiling of foundation stones of Assistant High Commissions of India in Khulna and Shylhet, Khulna-Mongla railway line, Revival of Kulaura-Shahbajpur rail connection, Rabindra Bhaban in Shilaidah Kuthibari, Maitree Bhaban at Sarda Police Academy, construction of a bridge on the Feni river at Ramgarh-Sabroom, laboratory of Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institution and a border haat.

The two PMs will also witness signing and exchanges of agreements/MoUs. Hasina and Modi will then make separate statements before the officials and select media.

Modi will attend a cultural programme followed by a state banquet to be hosted by the Bangladesh prime minister in honour of the Indian premier.

In the morning tomorrow, Modi is scheduled to visit the Dhakeshwari Temple and Ramakrishna Mission in the city, which rarely finds itself a high-profile VVIP visitor. He will then rush to Baridhara to inaugurate the newly constructed Indian High Commission's Chancery.

Modi will also call on President Abdul Hamid at 12:40pm at Bangabhaban and attend conferring of an award ceremony. He will receive the Bangladesh Liberation War Honour on behalf of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee from Bangladeshi President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The Foreign Friends of Bangladesh Liberation War Award initiated by the ruling Awami League government has been conferred upon 226 Indians so far including late Indira Gandhi and President Pranab Mukherjee.

He will also attend luncheon to be hosted by the Bangladesh president at Bangabhaban.

After the luncheon, the Indian PM will move to Sonargaon hotel where Leader of the Opposition Roushan Ershad and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will call on him separately in between 3:10pm to 6:00pm.

Modi will deliver a public speech at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC).

He will then move to the airport and depart Dhaka at 8:20pm by a special air force flight BBJ. PM Sheikh Hasina will see him off at the airport.