Bangladesh-India bus services to resume tomorrow after 2 years

Bus services between Bangladesh and India will resume tomorrow (June 10, 2022) after over two years of suspension due to the pandemic.

Tazul Islam, chairman of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC), confirmed The Daily Star today.

Except the Dhaka-Sylhet-Shillong-Guwahati-Dhaka route, services on the four other routes will resume from tomorrow and the first bus will start from Motijheel at 7:30am, he added.

The development came after railway services between the two neighbouring countries resumed on May 29.

Both the bus and train services were suspended in March 2020, when the deadly coronavirus hit Bangladesh.

Before suspension of the services, buses were operated on five cross-border routes -- Dhaka-Kolkata-Dhaka, Dhaka-Agartala-Dhaka, Dhaka-Sylhet-Shillong-Guwahati-Dhaka, Agartala-Dhaka-Kolkata-Agartala, and Dhaka-Khulna-Kolkata-Dhaka.

Discussion over resumption of bus services came to the fore after both the countries decided to resume the train services.

Confirming the resumption of the bus services, Suvenker Ghosh Rakesh, managing director of Shyamoli NR Travels, the operator of BRTC, today told The Daily Star, "We are ready to resume services."

The discussion over the operation of the fifth route is also going on and hope it will resume soon, a BRTC official said.