High Commission of India organized a Seminar on Indian Defence Equipment (SIDE) in Dhaka as part of the initiative to promote defence industry cooperation between India and Bangladesh.

Newsdesk: High Commissioner Pranay Verma and the Chief of General Staff (CGS) of Bangladesh Army, Lt. Gen. Ata-ul Hakim Sarwar Hasan made keynote remarks.

Several key Indian defence manufacturers, from both public and private sectors, participated and made presentations on their defence products and platforms. Representatives from Bangladesh Armed Forces, para-military forces as well as law enforcement agencies were present.

In his opening address, High Commissioner Pranay Verma identified defence industry cooperation between India and Bangladesh as an emerging focus area of their defence partnership. He highlighted the accomplishments of the Indian defence industry over the last nearly a decade driven by our Prime Minister’s vision of “Make in India, Make for the World”. High Commissioner invited Bangladesh Armed Forces to benefit from India’s cost-effective and high quality defence equipment and technology, and also proposed joint development and production. He expressed India’s readiness to partner with Bangladesh in its defence modernization through the US$ 500 million Defence Line of Credit extended by the Government of India to the Government of Bangladesh, and urged the defence industry on both sides to take full advantage of this arrangement.

Bangladesh CGS Lt. Gen. Hasan praised India’s defence manufacturing capabilities and proposed closer cooperation between the two sides for enhanced defence industry partnership.