India and Bangladesh ink key agreements in I&B sector

India and Bangladesh have signed key agreements in the information and broadcasting sector at the Information and Broadcasting Ministers’ meet 2020. In the presence of Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Prakash Javadekar and the Bangladeshi counterpart Muhammad H Mahmud, a formal co-production agreement was signed on the biopic of BangaBandhu, Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, which will be released during the birth-centenary year of Bangabandhu. Bangladesh has decided to celebrate the Mujib Year from March 17, 2020 to March 17, 2021 to mark the centenary year of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first President of Bangladesh. Deepening India’s engagement with Bangladesh, an airtime-exchange program between Prasar Bharati and Bangladesh Radio Betar has also been launched. With this launch, content from Maitree service has started airing in Dhaka and reciprocally content from Bangladesh Radio Betar has started airing on All India Radio in Kolkata.