The Indian Prime Minister's visit to Male and Colombo offers the opportunity to consolidate India's influence in Indian Ocean Region. Comment (200 Words)
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KEY POINTS
· The visit to Male and Colombo offers the opportunity to firmly place the Indian Ocean island states into India’s regional geography.
· Prime Minister outlined an Indian Ocean strategy called SAGAR (Security and Growth for All in the Region).
· Prime Minister must now expand the ambit of the strategy to draw in Madagascar, Comoros, Reunion and Diego Garcia. Reunion is part of France and Diego Garcia hosts a major American military facility.
· Similarly, Delhi should focus on a number of small islands that dot the sea lines of communication in the eastern Indian Ocean the Cocos and Keeling islands belonging to Australia.
Ideas to improve India’s Influence in IOR
· India needs to recognise that island states and territories including the smallest pieces of real estate are coming into strategic play amidst the return of great power rivalry to the littoral.
· The island states in the south western Indian Ocean form a coherent group and must be dealt within an integrated framework.
· In eastern Indian Ocean, a focus on developing the Andaman Islands opens up possibilities for sub-regional cooperation with Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore.
· India needs to develop its own national capabilities especially in the delivery of strategic economic and security assistance to the island states.
· Without that the ambitious goals identified under the SAGAR vision will remain elusive.
· Finally, in his SAGAR vision, Modi signalled India’s readiness to work with other powers in promoting regional prosperity and security.
· The joint bidding by India and Japan for the development of East Container Terminal in the Colombo port underlines the potential.
K. V. A 5 years
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Harshavardhan Chintam 5 years
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