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India’s role in the Indian Ocean.
Express your opinion in 25 to 30 words on the following:
India’s role in the Indian Ocean.
Solution
- The Indian Ocean is one of the most busy and critical maritime transportation links in the world. The economies of littoral countries of the Indian Ocean depend heavily on ports, shipping, and vast natural resources.
- India's vast coastline of about 7500 km presents both opportunity and challenge to India in terms of security and foreign perspectives.
- India's exclusive economic zone is 2.4 million sq. km. 90% of our trade by volume and almost all oil imports come through the sea.
- India is a co-founder of the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation in 1997 (IORA). The main objective of IORA is to promote sustained, balanced development of the Indian Ocean region. India has initiated the Sagarmala and Bharatmala programmes to harness India's coastline and aims to promote port development and river transport systems.
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