NEW DELHI, April 6 (Xinhua) -- New Delhi Thursday said it would sign a civil nuclear energy agreement with Dhaka during upcoming visit of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to India.
"We would be entering an inter-governmental agreement on civil nuclear energy with Bangladesh," Sripriya Ranganathan,joint secretary with India's foreign ministry, said during a media briefing in New Delhi.
"Like all our civil nuclear energy agreements that cover all aspects of generation of civil nuclear energy, cooperation in putting up nuclear plants, issues relating to safety and security, all of that is covered under this agreement."
Hasina is scheduled to visit India on Friday for a four-day visit, during which she is expected to sign several agreements with India, besides meeting her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, the Indian president and several other leaders.
The two countries would also sign string of agreements in a bid to improve bilateral relations.
"We are expecting to sign over 20 agreements with Bangladesh during this visit," Ranganathan said. "They are all meaningful agreements in information and communications technology (ICT), science and technology, cyber security, defense, development partnership, trade and investment, shipping, bus services, mass media and so on."
Ranganathan said the two countries would also be launching bus service connecting two cities of India and Bangladesh and a train service between India's state of West Bengal and Bangladesh.
The two prime ministers are scheduled to launch a few cross-border initiatives on Sunday.
The trade between the two countries is currently about 6.5 billion U.S. dollars, of which Indian exports are approximately 5.7 billion U.S. dollars.
Officials say India has invested about 3 billion U.S. dollars in Bangladesh and has extended highly concessional 3 billion U.S. dollars loan credit to the country.
