{"id":51874,"date":"2019-09-04T17:32:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T12:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=51874"},"modified":"2019-09-04T17:32:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T12:02:37","slug":"answered-discuss-the-growing-importance-of-eurasia-for-indias-changing-geopolitics-how-india-can-boost-its-presence-in-eurasia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-discuss-the-growing-importance-of-eurasia-for-indias-changing-geopolitics-how-india-can-boost-its-presence-in-eurasia\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] Discuss the growing importance of Eurasia for India\u2019s changing geopolitics. How India can boost its presence in Eurasia?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction.<\/strong> Contextual Introduction.
Body. <\/strong>Importance of Eurasia. How India can boost its presence?
Conclusion. <\/strong>Way forward. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

The vast Eurasian landmass, stretching from China in the east to Europe in the west and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Indian Ocean in the south, includes some of the world\u2019s most powerful and dynamic states. The economic relationship between India and the Member States of the Eurasia has developed rapidly in the recent years, particularly during India\u2019s ongoing process of economic reforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Importance of Eurasia\nfor India:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Resources: <\/strong>Eurasian\nregion is rich in natural resources, most notably energy resources,\ncharacterized by significant production and exports. Economic cooperation with\nthese countries is vital for safeguarding India\u2019s interests. The Eurasian\nstates are prospective long-term partners in energy (oil, natural gas) and\nnatural resources (that include uranium and iron ore). <\/li>
  2. Economic growth: <\/strong>Eurasia\nis important for India\u2019s objective of becoming an Economic Hub due its\nstrategic peninsular geographic location connecting various sub-regions of Asia\nand West Asia. This could well be facilitated by recent initiatives such as the\nMake in India, Skill India and Digital India. It could well serve as a\nmechanism to harness India\u2019s demographic dividend as well if India economically\nintegrates with other parts of Asia. <\/li>
  3. Strategic: <\/strong>Eurasian\nRegion is interested in decreasing their dependence on both Moscow and Beijing.\nAgainst this backdrop they are prepared to support India in its bid to\nstrengthen its position in the region so as to become an alternative to the\ntraditional players Russia, China, the EU and the US. Simultaneously Iran\u2019s\nnuclear deal and Russia\u2019s face-off with the West provide favourable conditions\nfor a qualitative improvement in India\u2019s relations with the Eurasian states.<\/li>
  4. Tourism: <\/strong>India\nis an emerging tourist nation. Eurasia is important to garner tourists from the\nregion. India should develop beaches and world class hotels in order to attract\nmore tourists.<\/strong><\/li>
  5. Pharmaceutical: <\/strong>The\nmedical and Pharmaceutical industry is another area that offers huge potential\nfor cooperation. India is ready to extend cooperation by setting up civil\nhospitals\/clinics in Eurasia. India is working on setting up a Central Asian\ne-network with its hub in India, to deliver, tele-education and tele-medicine\nconnectivity, linking all the five Central Asian States.<\/strong><\/li>
  6. Construction industry: <\/strong>Indian\ncompanies can showcase its capability in the construction sector and build\nworld class structures at competitive rates. Central Asian countries,\nespecially Kazakhstan, have almost limitless reserves of iron ore and coal, as\nwell as abundant cheap electricity. India can help set up several medium size\nsteel rolling mills, producing its requirement of specific products.<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    How India can boost\nits presence?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Facilitate regular and frequent\nshipping links between the ports in India (Mundra, Kandla & Mumbai) and\nChabahar.<\/li>
    2. Support the proposed joint\nAfghan-Uzbek project of extending the approximately 700-km long Mazar-i-Sharif\nto Herat railway line that would pass through western Afghanistan. If this project\nmaterialises, all Central Asian countries including Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan\nwould be connected to Chabahar corridor via western Afghanistan. <\/li>
    3. Apart from Afghanistan, India needs\nto rope in one or more of the Central Asian countries, preferably Uzbekistan\nand Kazakhstan, in its effort to project Chabahar as a gateway between Eurasia\nand the Indian Ocean. <\/li>
    4. Cooperation in the area of\nconnectivity with these countries could also be pursued under the SCO\nframework.<\/li>
    5. India should push its own\nconnectivity agenda for Eurasia, without necessarily becoming engaged in direct\nconflict or competition with China\u2019s BRI. Russia, Iran and Central Asian states\ncan certainly help India enter into the Eurasian integration path. <\/li>
    6. Apart from INSTC and Chabahar Port,\nIndia should seek to join Russia\u2019s \u201cGreater Eurasian\u201d corridor and the\nNortheast Passage to connect to the Far East and even Japan.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      While New Delhi enters the Eurasian integration path, it also needs to factor in the changing political dynamics within Central Asia. Following the recent change of leadership in Tashkent, the nature of the regional outlook is changing in favour of intra-regional cooperation. Indian policy response should cater for the interplay of trade, investment, connectivity and culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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