Bharat Rakshak

Do you think India should buy this land strip from Myanmar??
Of course there may be some Rohingyas to deal with but, we won't ever get anything if we kept shying from plunging in.
It could connect our North East to Bay of Bengal. Could in effect facilitate better cross reach from various directions and will have immense strategic implications.
Think about it, if a highway or rail line swept in from mainland to NE and reached till the Bay of Bengal?


Regards,
Virendra

it is actually better we connect with north myanmar road and rail network at more amenable points along the border and source goods from ASEAN region via that channel , as well as export from NE. the chinese have moved in bigtime into north myanmar and if we ignore and not compete it will be tough later.

NE is in decades long economic atrophy due to closed borders on 3 sides and economically "troubled" states like bihar and WB on the other with no exportable surplus of industry or importable high growth sink for workers. there are FAR more NEers in NCR, pune, mumbai, hyd, chennai and blr than in kolkata

north myanmar is a rain deficient area and many parts are dusty and bone dry. but culturally buddhist and contiguous to our NE people in ethnic terms, we should fit right in.

in my opinion we should also strengthen the road and rail network with bangladesh. right now we have all the cons (illegal migration, smuggling, terrorism) and none of the pros (tourism, trade, easier travel from tripura, manipur, nagaland to kolkata and so on. the pros will not make the cons go away immediately, but we can expect the BD political and economic elite to benefit hugely from such activity as opposed to expecting handouts from KSA/TSP/Cheen. once they start benefitting , it would be in their interest to atleast be neutral if not actively in our camp.

Why do we need a separate thread for this topic?

RoyG wrote:Why do we need a separate thread for this topic?

Also, why do we assume the land is up for sale? Presuming such to be the case is a bit insulting to Myanmar, to be honest.

That 180 km "strip" appears to be mostly river delta and flood plain

An interesting thought but better not to have a separate thread as it may defeat the very purpose with too much publicity. Also it is good to use a slightly thinner blue pen, as on a map of that scale, you need a line a mere micron thick...

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Myanmar will not sell / Lease this land to India. The best course of action for us would be to seek a transshipment route to the Indian NE through Myanmar. That will be an alternative to the Bangladesh Route.

That said, mods merge this thread with existing Myanmar thread.

IB4TL

Post it in appropriate thread, please.
I have locked this.