# Hasina signs the Ganges water-sharing treaty with India

Date: 1996

## The fact

On 12 December 1996 [Sheikh Hasina](/people/sheikh-hasina) signed a 30-year Ganges water-sharing treaty with India.

## Context

MOFA and India signed. She did not sit as a barrage operator. A treaty is still a dated water-and-food instrument.

CHT 1997 is a neighbouring later peace row. 2024 flight later strained the same Delhi file.

Bangladesh’s prime minister chairs the cabinet and can order security forces under statute. She does not write an Indian extradition order, a UN body-count as if it were a gazette, a 2026 Tarique Rahman cabinet minute, or an ICJ merits judgment. She fled on 5 August 2024; as of August 2026 she is in India, not in office. Country is Bangladesh, not Pakistan. A RAB warrant is not a completed finding that every disappeared person was thereby a militant. Allegation of a stolen 2018 count is stored as a contested election, not as a completed steal. A 2026 Delhi audio is not a return.

## Evidence and sources

Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bangladesh carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is food-price and energy-adjacent water security: a completed sharing treaty can reduce dry-season conflict, with lag.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 12 December 1996 Ganges treaty, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later yield coefficient from signing hour, or that every later dispute ended.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

India signed. Barrage operators implemented. Farmers sat downstream.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Hasina signs the Ganges water-sharing treaty with India, not a later speech about Hasina signs the Ganges water-sharing treaty with India.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Hasina signs the Ganges water-sharing treaty with India on 1996-12-12 is not a licence to treat every later Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bangladesh communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Hasina signs the Ganges water-sharing treaty with India into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She signed for Dhaka. India signed. Barrage operators implemented. Farmers sat downstream. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Sheikh Hasina: https://factrail.ai/people/sheikh-hasina

## Drivers

- Food-Price Pressure: https://factrail.ai/drivers/food-price-pressure
- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-bangladesh-water-idUSKBN1L22D4
- https://www.mofa.gov.bd/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/bd-hasina-ganges-1996