BBIN Motor Vehicles Agreement

In a meeting held recently, India, Bangladesh and Nepal finalised a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for implementing the long-pending Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA).

• Bhutan participated in the meeting as an observer and has decided to stay out of the BBIN MVA.

Key Highlights

• Aim: To provide seamless people-to-people contact and enhance economic interaction by facilitating cross border movement of people and goods.
• The Meeting: The BBIN meeting was the first such in-person meeting since February 2020 to discuss the MVA since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, and officials finalised the wording of two separate protocols on passenger and cargo movement with ....