The Indian authorities exempted the Bangladeshi seafarers, for the first time, from escorting to airports in India after they had signed off from the ships in Indian sea-ports.
The High Commission of India in Dhaka, through a note verbale, informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh that the Ministry of Home Affairs of India had issued instructions to the concerned authorities in this regard. Ministry of Foreign Affairs took up the matter with the Indian side several times and during the visit of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh to India in April 2017.
It may be mentioned that, earlier in many of the Indian ports, except for ports in West Bengal, Bangladesh seafarers, despite carrying CDC (Continuous Discharge Certificate) and machine-readable identity document, were not allowed to join vessels or return to Bangladesh after signing off the vessels without immigration police escort to the nearest sea-ports. This exemption is expected to encourage foreign ship-owners to employ more Bangladeshi seafarers.
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