ABSTRACT
India's Myanmar policy is often explained in strategic studies in terms of reactions against Chinese penetration in Myanmar. It is important that India's oil reserves are expected to last just another 19 years. As of 2014, India is the third largest destination of Myanmar's export China being the first and Thailand being the second. As far as the total volume of trade is concerned, India is the fourth largest trading partner of Myanmar China being the first, Thailand second and Singapore third. India's Myanmar policy and development policy of Northeastern Region (NER) should be conjoint objectives, which enables India to use proximate geographical area as the spear-head of Myanmar Policy. Although NER is India's gateway to Myanmar, development interest of NER has not been synchronized with India's strategy for engaging Myanmar. Moreover, in spite of tremendous increase in IndoMyanmar two-way trade, the border trade between NER and Myanmar has remained insignificant.
