A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Thursday between India and Bangladesh to set up a Chair in the name of Nobel Laureate Poet Rabindranath Tagore in Dhaka University. India’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh Mr. Rajeet Mitter and Vice Chancellor of Dhaka University Prof.Dr. A.A.M. S Arefin Siddique signed the MOU for the establishment of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations’ Tagore Chair in the University of Dhaka from July this year. The Chair would function under the aegis of a Department at the University of Dhaka and facilitate research on Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s legacy of literature and artworks. Both India and Bangladesh are in the process of jointly celebrating Tagore’s 150th Birth Anniversary in 2011-12 in a manner befitting his vision and spirit following the agreement reached between the Prime Ministers of the two countries during the visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India in January last year.According to the Indian High Commission in Dhaka, these initiatives are part of Government of India’s commitment to further strengthen close and friendly relations with Bangladesh based upon the common bonds of culture and heritage between the people of the two countries.