"We are sure the agreement will materialise. The people of Bangladesh are also optimistic about it," Moni told reporters on the sidelines of a function, where she was conferred with the Mother Teresa International Award for excellence in social work.
"Water is a very important issue. People of Bangladesh also want this agreement to be signed. Bilateral relation between India and Bangladesh is a deep-rooted one. Teesta agreement will be signed soon," she said on arriving here on a two-day private visit.
The agreement had to be scrapped during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Dhaka last September following last minute objection by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to the quantum of water to be given to Bangladesh.
Moni said both the countries were forging ahead to strengthen the bilateral relation and fulfilling the agreements signed between the two countries during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Dhaka last year and Sheikh Hasina's trip to Delhi in January 2010.
She said a joint commission headed by Foreign Ministers of the two countries was also formed as part of the institutional mechanism to pursue and monitor the agreements signed during the visits of the two Prime Ministers, and the first meeting of the commission would be held in New Delhi on May 7. MORE PTI AKB NN PAL