A third India-Bangladesh friendship bus service connecting Dhaka, Shillong and Guwahati will be launched next month during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the neighbouring nation. “We were informed that the final decision on the bus service will be taken during the Indian Prime Minister’s visit scheduled next month,” Bangladesh Road Transport and Bridges Ministry joint secretary Md Azharul Islam Khan told reporters here.
Modi will officially launch the third bus service between the two countries after both the leaders (Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina) sign an agreement and a protocol, he said. Khan, who led a 22-member high-level official delegation on a bus ride from Dhaka to Guwahati via Shillong on May 22, prior to the official launching, today left Shillong on the bus’s return leg.