First, we are talking about building an infrastructure almost fromscratch: electricity, clean water, essential institutions like schools and hospitals, as well as security and law enforcement.
Officials on both sides are confident that it will yield agreements on security co-operation, on Bangladesh's purchase of electricityfrom India and on the creation virtually from scratch of transport links across a common 4, 100km (2, 500-mile) border, the world's fifth-longest.