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Love Thy Neighbour: India Extends $5 Million Aid For Developmental Projects Along Myanmar Border
PM Narendra Modi shakes hands with Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi before a meeting. (Pankaj Nangia/India Today Group/Getty Images)
India has granted $5 million in aid to Myanmar as part of its micro-development commitment for projects along the Indo-Myanmar border, PTI has reported. India’s Myanmar Ambassador Vikram Misri handed over a cheque for the total amount to Myanmar’s Minister for Border Affair Lt General Ye Aung in a ceremony on Monday (26 November).
The aid is part of the 2012 Border Region Development Agreement between the two countries, as per which India will grant assistance to the tune of $5 million for border projects every five years. India and Myanmar had signed a Memorandum of Understanding in May 2012 under which India promised to provide $25 million in five separate tranches.
The money from this first tranche will be utilised to build 21 schools, 17 health centres and eight bridges in the Chin State and Naga Self Administered Zone of Myanmar. The project will be overseen by Myanmar’s Border Affairs ministry, as per the Indian embassy’s website.
In the next phase of the plan, five road projects each would be completed in Chin and Naga Self-Administered Zone. Three schools would be constructed in the former and eight would be built in the latter region.
India shares around 1,600 km of its border with Myanmar along the four North-Eastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram.
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