The Centre is planning a new travel agreement with Bangladesh, enabling citizens of both the countries to avail visa on arrival. This new travel agreement is likely to be signed in January 2013, when home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde will be visiting Dhaka to sign a number of other pacts with his Bangladeshi counterpart M K Alamgir. Indian officials are expecting the new travel agreement to come into effect from April, as it will take some time to process it.
The move is aimed at mending fences with Bangladesh. The country had been left disappointed after the Teesta agreement fell through in September 2011. The visa-on-arrival will initially be restricted to certain categories of travellers.
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