Tipai site visit date yet to be fixed
The exact date for the visit of Tipaimukh dam site is yet to be finalised and it will be done keeping in view the weather condition in the area in the peak of monsoon that makes journey by road or flight highly unsafe.
The ten-member Bangladeshi parliamentary delegation on Tipaimukh power project issue is expected to meet Indian Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde here either on July 29, the day it arrives in the Indian capital, or the next day.
Besides, the delegation headed by senior Awami League leader and former water resources minister Abdur Razzaq would have a meeting with officials of ministries concerned with the Tipaimukh project on Barak river in the north east Indian state of Manipur.
After their stay in Delhi, the team of lawmakers will be going to Guwahati on its way to Tipaimukh project site.
The visit by the parliamentary delegation from Bangladesh to the Tipaimukh site takes place following Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's meeting with her Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh on the sideline of the Non Aligned Summit in Sharm-al-Sheikh, Egypt, earlier this month.
Singh had assured Hasina that India would be looking for a "creative" solution to the issue.
Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni also raised the issue when she had met her Indian counterpart S M Krishna and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee prior to the meeting between Singh and Hasina.
Krishna assured Dipu Moni that India would not do anything that harms Bangladesh's interests during the meeting.
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