<span style="color: black;">India has expressed its happiness that Bangladesh has decided to accept the invitation to join the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI). </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: black;">CDRI is a coalition of national governments, UN agencies, multilateral development banks and private sector which aims to promote resilience of new and existing infrastructure to climate and disaster risks. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: black;">In a letter written to Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen, Foreign Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar urged Bangladesh to implement the recently concluded MoU in the field of disaster management, resilience and mitigation on a priority basis.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: black;">He expressed the hope that these mechanisms will help the two countries to remain better prepared to face such challenges in the future.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: black;">Dr. Jaishankar also stated that capacity building, learning from each other's best practices as well as extending support to each other is the need of the hour.</span><br />''  <br />