India on Wednesday assured Bangladesh that efforts were on to build a domestic consensus on Teesta water sharing treaty and the ratification of the land boundary agreement by accommodating the views of all stakeholders.
“Historically speaking, our relations have gone through ups and downs and this have perhaps made us more mature and better equipped to deal with problems as they arise,” Indian envoy Pankaj Saran told journalists at the National Press Club here.
Asked for comments on the unresolved issues of the common Teesta water sharing treaty, Saran said New Delhi remained committed to solve the problems as efforts were now underway to accommodate the views of all the stakeholders in the process.
He said for the first time in history, the two countries last year exchanged data of the water flow in the common river as part of the process to reach an agreement.
“Basic changes have taken place in regard to ‘understanding’ but we are yet to see the implementation of many agreed matters like the lBA (land boundary agreement) or the Teesta water sharing issue on which (West Bengal Chief Minister) Mamata Banarjee stood as an obstacle,” Professor Imtiaz Ahmad, a Dhaka University Professor, said. PTI