Two MoUs Signed between India & Bangladesh to deepen Inter-governmental Railway Co-operation
GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 7th September. To strengthen their intergovernmental railway cooperation, India and Bangladesh signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) on Tuesday.
This comes after the visit of a multi-sectoral scoping Indian Railways delegation to Bangladesh in April 2022, as well as the recent meeting between India’s Railway Minister and Bangladesh’s Railway Minister on June 1, 2022.
These Memorandums of Understanding were signed and exchanged on September 6, 2022, during Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to India.
The two Memorandums of Understanding signed include “Training of Bangladesh Railway Employees in the Indian Railways Training Institute” and “Collaboration in IT Systems such as FOIS and other IT applications for Bangladesh Railway.”
The purpose of the Memorandum of Understanding on Training of Bangladesh Railway Employees is to provide a framework for cooperation and to facilitate training of Bangladesh Railway employees at Indian Railway training institutes, including field visits.
This will include designing, coordinating, conducting seminars, workshops, classroom and field training. Indian Railways will also coordinate with officials of the Ministry of Railways, Government of Bangladesh, as required, including visiting and assisting in setting up and improving training facilities in Bangladesh and study requirements.
The MoU which relates to the collaboration of IT systems will be for all aspects of computerization like passenger ticketing, freight operations and control office, train inquiry system, digitization of asset management, HR and Finance infrastructure in Bangladesh Railway, Ministry of Railway, Government of India, through Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS), will offer IT solutions to Bangladesh Railway.
