India seeks new routes for Indo-Myanmar pipeline

Dhaka, which had in January agreed to the passage of the pipeline through its territory, has now demanded from India a trade and power corridor to Nepal and Bhutan and measures to reduce Bangladesh’s $2 billion trade deficit. New Delhi has opposed making bilateral issues part of a trilateral agreement.

Ministry officials said the possibility of taking the pipeline from Myanmar into Mizoram and onwards to Assam and culminating in West Bengal, a distance of 1400-km, will be explored.