Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has called upon the Indian government to quickly implement the proposed process for supplying daily essential goods from India to Bangladesh.

He made the call to the country in a bilateral meeting with Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday (August 25) on the sidelines ahead of the G-20 Trade and Investment Ministers meeting held in Jaipur, India.

Tipu extended his thanks to the Indian commerce minister for the progress in the formulation of a process for supplying daily essential goods from India to Bangladesh and sought continued support from India for the quick implementation of the proposed process.

A press release issued from the Ministry of the Commerce yesterday night came up with the information.

At the meeting, Tipu drew the attention of India’s Commerce Minister that the recent imposition of 40 percent export duty on onion had adversely affected onion prices in Bangladesh.

Piyush Goyal said India is committed to work with Bangladesh to overcome the difficulties caused by global production disruptions, supply shortages and rising prices of the commodity.

“India is also suffering from shortfall in agricultural production due to adverse weather conditions and food inflation. Due to this, Indian government had to take some decisions,” he added.

He assured Bangladesh that India will be able to overcome this crisis very soon.