ABSTRACT
The North Eastern Region (NER) of India shares international borders with Bangladesh, Bhutan, China and Myanmar. The trinity of initiatives making Bangladesh Corridor available for NER, promoting subregional development cooperation and providing space for bordering states in making the neighbourhood policy if factored into the Act East Policy, it would be able to transform the NER from landlocked entity to landlinked entity, which holds the key for the development of this peripheral region. Sub-regional development cooperations like BIMSTEC and MGI need to be revitalized and new initiatives like BCIM needs to be concretized. Subregional development cooperation involving Southwestern Region of China (SWC), Myanmar (M), Bangladesh (B) and NER of India (NERI) under the proposed BCIM would prove to be beneficial for all the stakeholders while conceived on a project-led mode. The SWC-M-B-NERI region is rich in hydropower potential, which could be the starting point of project-led development cooperation.
