Bangladesh Water Resources Advisor Syeda Rizwana Hasan said the country would soon take steps to hold negotiations with India over the sharing of water from transboundary rivers. However, she did not mention accurate dates for the negotiations.
Yunus, 84, said delaying the India-Bangladesh treaty on Teesta water sharing does not serve any purpose for either of the countries. The water-sharing pact hit a roadblock when West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee declined to endorse a deal signed during ex-PM Manmohan Singh's Dhaka visit in 2011.
The 56-year-old adviser to Bangladesh’s Department of Water, Forest, Environment, and Climate Change said the interim government has not yet discussed taking the issue of water sharing with India to the international forum.
Mamata's letter came after PM Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina agreed to resume technical-level talks on the renewal of the 2016 Ganga Water Sharing Treaty. India will also send a delegation to Bangladesh on Teesta water, something Bengal and Bihar have long opposed.
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