India’s Northeast Region as a Gateway to Southeast Asia

• The Govt. of India is articulating plans to transform its northeast region into a gateway to South-East Asia.
• The India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway will play a key role in this and help improve connectivity between India and Thailand and others in the neighbourhood.
• India also has plans for a Global Electricity Grid that may initially aim to link countries such as Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam with the Indian sub-continent, as part of evolving energy security architecture.

Moreh-Tamu Land Route Opened

• Sixteen years after India, Myanmar, Thailand agreed to build a 1,300-km highway, to bind the three countries together, and bring ....